Melissa Taylor is a former teacher and literacy trainer as well as a mother of two, blogger, and children’s book expert. She created and writes the popular blog Imagination Soup. She is also a ...

With a post-pandemic drop in North Carolina reading proficiency scores, it is all hands on deck to turn the situation around. One way educators and librarians are trying to do this is by nurturing a ...

EdSource · What a California State University’s new polytechnic status means for its future What a California State University’s new polytechnic status means for its future June 11, 2026 - As a ...

Raymond McGrath. Graphic Universe, Feb. 3 ($12.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-7656-4813-1). Spring is blooming in this early reader comic, where a bird newly flying solo takes in the sprouting greenery ...

There’s a settled body of research on how best to teach early reading. But when it comes to the multitude of curriculum choices that schools have, it’s often hard to parse whether well-marketed ...

Supporting delayed readers requires a thoughtful and research-informed approach. These students can make meaningful gains when provided with targeted reading intervention strategies tailored to their ...

When I first met “Juan,” then a 2nd grader, he knew about half of his consonant sounds and none of his vowels. I was a new K-5 special education teacher at the time, now more than a dozen years ago, ...

What’s the best way to teach reading to beginners in preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or home school and how can we do it better? Both research and practice are offering a novel idea: teach kids ...

BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–Kids in Massachusetts, and nationwide, are behind on reading. In her State of the Commonwealth address at the beginning of this year, Gov. Maura Healey proposed a $30 million ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Looking at public data, a report from the nonprofit, Reading RoadMap, Inc., found that rural school districts in Kansas experienced the greatest declines in early reading levels ...

At Western University’s Mary J. Wright Child and Youth Development Clinic, I work on a team training future school psychologists. In our work, we encounter parents concerned about their children’s ...