Jennifer Zavodny, a teacher at Academy Early Childhood Center, wrote 'Piper the Pumpkin' to help kindergarteners learn ...

Silas McLellan, a kindergartner in a play-based learning class, plays with toy blocks during Choice Time at Symonds ...

Some advocates and parents are worried the state's new literacy laws won't be enough to move districts not already embracing ...

Four-year-old students learn how to learn in transitional kindergarten through play-based lessons. See how it works in San ...

When students at Moline Elementary gather for reading lessons, their teachers now use strategies that go beyond memorization — helping children connect sounds, letters, and meaning. It’s part of a ...

First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district's curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.

One Bluebonnet lesson instructs students to memorize the order in which the Bible says God created the universe.

All computers come with spellcheckers and iPhones autocorrect their users’ texts. But despite those everyday features, formal spelling instruction still pays off, the findings of a new study suggest.

Supporters of the bill hope it will improve literacy instruction and outcomes while opponents worry that it is overly prescriptive and will limit the methods teachers have available to teach students.

The only early childhood education (ECE) center run by a public school district offering free preschool tuition opened in ...

In a new book, researcher Timothy Shanahan argues that giving students easy texts is holding back US reading achievement.

As students settle into the school year and their teachers are hard at work, administrators in some of the rivertowns ...