It’s well-documented that all Americans—not just kids—are reading less in their leisure time than in decades past. The share ...
First grader Aizlynn Castillo works on an assignment in Diana Oviedo-Holguin’s English-learner class at Heritage Elementary ...
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Why one reading expert says ‘just-right’ books are all wrong

In a new book, researcher Timothy Shanahan argues that giving students easy texts is holding back US reading achievement ...
The book has previously been challenged in Florida schools as the Anne Frank Foundation expresses concern regarding "denial of history" STRINGER/AFP via Getty The graphic novel version of "The Diary ...
When she received an email from a former student one evening, BYU English professor Dawan Coombs experienced déjà vu. The former student, a graduate of the BYU English teaching program, was desperate ...
Walk through the hallways of my high school on any morning, and you’ll see students scrolling through TikTok, flipping between Snapchat stories, or checking their email before class starts. What you ...
A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher Scholastic, he helped design and execute the ...
Twenty-one employees at Reading Hospital-Tower Health recently completed the hospital’s inaugural English as a Second Language (ESL) course. The one-hour classes were provided in partnership with the ...
What better place to teach your students to reach for the sky than the sky itself? Each year, Georgetown Primary third-grade teacher, Rebecca Muir, sends her new class a welcome video to get them ...