We've all heard about the benefits of learning to read quietly and independently. A big part of learning at school is all about reading, but it's not always easy to find time for more reading at home.

Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

Study after study confirms that reading aloud to your kids has numerous benefits. We know that it promotes language ...

What if I were to start this blog post with the phrase, "In a great green room...," ask you what the brown bear sees, or simply inquire as to what very hungry caterpillars eat? I'm willing to bet that ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) As a teacher in San Jose Unified, Seena Hawley made a point of reading aloud to her fourth and fifth graders every day.

A new British survey from data company Nielsen and publisher HarperCollins found that the number of parents reading aloud to their preschool-age kids declined to just 41 percent, from 64 percent in ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...