Years ago, I coached my 8-year-old son’s basketball team. A few games into the season, a parent berated me for not winning every game. I shared that I had two primary goals (and neither was piling up ...

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...

More than half of California's students are reading below grade level, according to a survey that assessed third-grade reading performance in nearly 300 school districts. The California Reading ...

Phase 3 opens great doors for advancing word-level reading and overall literacy growth. Phase 3 spelling typically unfolds in the first half of first grade, when instruction generally focuses on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS (AP Education Writer) ATLANTA (AP) — Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his mustard-yellow ...

Jess Hutchison’s daughter Sawyer, 8, is often bored by the books she gets assigned based on her reading level at school. And she’s not the only one. “Many of them are dumb. They’re just nonsensical,” ...

American students are failing to meet certain expectations on their reading skills due to school interruptions caused by the pandemic. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, kindergartners missed most of the ...

Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...

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