A kindergarten student raises her hand during a reading lesson in Jennifer Lee’s class at Southwest Primary School in Hickory, N.C. Credit: Ariel Gilreath for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

Above: Nystrom Elementary teacher Dylan Fairweather teaches a reading lesson to a third grade class. The school has used the science of reading approach since receiving grant funding in 2021. More ...

INDIANAPOLIS — There is a reading crisis happening inside our schools, and it’s impacting some of our youngest students. According to the Indiana Department of Education, one in five students can’t ...

For some elementary school students, reading lessons are an opportunity to get messy and get out of their seats. Kids learning how to map letters to sounds might trace A’s and B’s in sand or shaving ...

After two years of pandemic disruptions to students’ reading progress, schools nationwide are scrambling for ways to help them progress faster. Small-group instruction in reading is one of the most ...

When Clayton Wilcox became superintendent in 2017, he noted that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools had 17 different reading initiatives going at the same time. That was way too many, he said. At a recent ...

More than 250 students and parents from Shull Elementary School in San Dimas attended the school’s inaugural Family Reading Night, held Nov. 14. “Blast Off Into Reading” was the theme of the event ...

DECATUR, Mich. — Students at Davis Elementary took a different kind of camping trip Wednesday night. Stopping by "Camp Read-a-Lot," elementary students ranging from pre-school to fifth grade ...

Inside a classroom in St. Charles Parish, a group of first graders sit around their teacher as she points to an easel with a large piece of paper titled “READING.” Under it, six steps lay out how to ...

In previous years, teacher Lovina Shahid had difficulty helping her first graders learn vowel sounds. So, she read up on evidence-based reading programs, hoping to help the students, many of whom ...

Salisbury Township schools are using data to identify struggling readers early and personalize lessons to target skills they may lack, in hopes that helping students catch up quickly will minimize the ...