The Clemente High School 10th graders trying to read “To Kill a Mockingbird” bombard their teacher with questions before she can even walk to the back of the room. “Help me with what’s going on in ...

Amira Learning, one of the most widely adopted offerings on the market, has contracts in 10 states. Several big providers of early reading curricula and intervention materials—including McGraw Hill ...

Since its creation in 2002, Reading First has simultaneously been one of the most popular and controversial aspects of the No Child Left Behind Act. The program offers states funding for reading ...

When I had my first child, the advice to me about how to raise a strong reader was simple: Read to her all the time and leave good books around. That guidance reflected the belief that learning to ...

In this exercise, you will use the knowledge you have gained from class discussions about poetic language and poetic structure to move beyond our classwork and interpret poems you have not seen before ...

It can be easy to lose sight of the fact that one of the purposes of the holidays is to recognize the importance of family and friends. However, one place where that sentiment will be realized and ...

Remedial Reading and Language Arts – Students will recognize informational text structures and differentiate authors’ purposes. Students will apply this knowledge by writing five different kinds of ...

Districts like New York are revamping elementary school reading instruction. But the middle and high schoolers who don’t read proficiently are an afterthought. By Troy Closson American public school ...