Often they aren't sure what strategies are important in particular reading tasks or how or when to use the strategies they do possess" (Vacca & Vacca, 1996). For the student with limited English ...

Well-planned read-alouds can enhance critical thinking, comprehension, and engagement across disciplines—and age levels.

Pennsylvania legislators are pushing schools to use the science of reading to improve literacy. But some Philly teachers ...

Today, the Knowledge Matters Campaign is unveiling a new K-8 English language arts curriculum review tool to ... a surge in focus on the importance of background knowledge to reading comprehension.

These resources are aimed at first language English ... the basis for teaching reading and writing skills, including comprehension, grammar, punctuation, phonics, spelling and handwriting. Learners ...

As the "science of reading" movement has spread, predictable texts for beginning readers have come under fire.

Superintendent Marie Feagins is embracing a “back to basics” approach to reading instruction as Memphis-Shelby County Schools ...

known as “balanced literacy,” becomes the dominant methodology in reading instruction, although a hodgepodge of methods exists throughout the state under local control. The State Board of Education ...

In 2024, AL.com Education Lab reporters found schools with the most improved grades from the Alabama school report card for ...

The standards lay out what students from kindergarten through third grade are expected to know to develop proficiency in ...

Villegas: Current data doesn't account for issues with testing, diversity and chronic absenteeism, among other challenges for this key group of kids.

Debates over how to teach math echo the conflicts over reading ... your comprehension will depend a lot on your familiarity with the sentence structure of written language—its syntax—which ...