Watching a child learn to read feels magical. I remember the first time my son read a book all by himself. I watched in amazement as my kindergartner slowly made his way through an easy reader, ...

Kids learn best when they’re having fun. Reading is a skill built on practice and recognition. Reading to your child daily, letting her play with flashcards or letter magnets, and identifying letters ...

The game teaches "sight words" that don't follow typical spelling rules. During the pandemic three years ago, Jacquelyn Davis noticed her son Madden was having a difficult time learning how to read.

The students in Emily Hoard’s first-grade class trace letters in their sand trays, then break down the sounds the letters ...

Learning to read fluently requires hundreds of hours of practice. Some children happily sit and read for hours, but others (especially those with ADHD or dyslexia) cannot. Parents and teachers often ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Ms. Hanford is a senior education correspondent for American Public Media. The most important thing schools can do is teach children how to read. If you can read, you can learn anything. If you can’t, ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Cathie Wallace is ...

Move over “Dick and Jane.” A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...