School districts across North Texas have had to cancel classes due to the coronavirus pandemic. Those closures have left parents, who are trying to get work done themselves, left with kids who need to ...

In the age of text messaging, where words are reduced to nonstandard abbreviations and symbols, many people question the future of literacy. But experts point out that, in fact, technology has put new ...

Texting as a tool to teach literacy. Such is the idea behind startup Cell-Ed. It's tapping the vast number of people who have access to basic cell phones and, therefore, can send text messages, using ...

Text messaging may actually be good for kids. A U.K. study finds that children who text regularly improve their literacy skills. (Kudos to the Core Knowledge Blog, where I first learned of this. And I ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about how AI fits into reading practices, and I recently shared a guide exploring this topic in ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Duke researchers may have made a breakthrough in improving ...

Amalia Lopez became a high school English teacher because she thinks functional English is one of the greatest gifts you can give anyone trying to navigate life in the United States. So it may have ...

Who would have thought that texting—with all of its acronyms and emoticons—could actually improve a student’s literacy skills? But that’s exactly what a new study of San Francisco preschoolers found.

LOGAN, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Compared to books with text, wordless books have been shown to increase literacy and vocabulary skills in toddlers with developmental disabilities, according to research ...

A new research project from Edith Cowan University (ECU) is hoping to use text messages to support parents as their child’s first teacher by helping build literacy skills. ECU researchers will send ...