Alex Quigley is an English teacher and Director of Huntington Research School, York, England. He blogs at www.theconfidentteacher.com and he is the author of ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’, published by ...

Teaching a child to decode words is a critical early step in reading instruction. But just because children can read words doesn’t mean they understand them. “Reading comprehension, in its simplest ...

In the dynamic realm of education... The art and science of teaching reading have been subject to continual debate and evolution. Educators find themselves at the forefront of this discourse, ...

Brooke Tepper, a special education resource teacher at Columbus School in Carteret, N.J., works on reading fluency with first graders, giving them parts to read aloud in a short play. Credit: Caralee ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

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 ...

Ohio education officials have unveiled a new statewide math plan aimed at reversing years of stagnant achievement and helping students recover from pandemic setbacks. The 47-page document, Ohio’s Plan ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the roles of reading strategies in literacy instruction? In Part One, the guests responding to the question were Colleen Cruz, Ross Cooper, Lindsey Moses, and ...

Teaching a child to decode words is a critical early step in reading instruction. But just because children can read words doesn’t mean they understand them. “Reading comprehension, in its simplest ...