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Balanced Literacy downplays structured phonics, where kids learn by memorizing letters' sounds. Is that why some are ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Amid consistently bad news for US education, one development in public schools is so horrifying, few would believe it’s even true — if the evidence weren’t so solid. It turns out that book reading in ...

In Raymond Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten classroom, boys and girls huddled together on a rug with their teacher to learn a foundational skill for reading and spelling: how to pull apart and put ...

Daughtrey Elementary School in the hallway outside their classroom, she was greeted with hugs. The children exclaimed “Miss. Gina!” with a level of excitement that was hard to ignore.  After the ...

Kathy French, the executive director of AR Kids Read (pronounced "Our Kids Read"), combines traits not often found together. She's effusive and analytical, steady and adventurous. She radiates an easy ...

Reading often to a child creates lifelong deference, respect, and parent-child boundaries that will make them feel safe and ...

Kaiden was in tears. My first-grade student, struggling through yet another reading lesson, ripped his book in half, hurled it across the room and yelled, “I hate reading!” That moment still haunts me ...

Our Kids Read, a Maryland based program, is trying to help boost literacy rates in children by donating free books and ...