Westfield’s first-graders are using virtual learning to read

The success of virtual tutoring program being used in Westfield's elementary schools to help first graders learn to read has confirmed independent research that it significantly boosted reading ...
Business Insider

For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his ...
Psychology Today

Video Games Can Help Kids Learn to Read

Learning to read fluently requires hundreds of hours of practice. Some children happily sit and read for hours, but others (especially those with ADHD or dyslexia) cannot. Parents and teachers often ...
Wakefield Express on MSN

'I used to hide my letters' – Wakefield woman tells how learning to read changed her life

A Wakefield woman who spent years hiding unopened letters because she couldn't read them has spoken about how learning to ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

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 ...
USA Today

When do kids learn to read? Here's when you should be concerned.

Every parent of multiple children will tell you that each child does things at their own pace and in their own way. For instance, one child might love baseball and excel at throwing one while another ...
PBS

Learning to Read with Apps

Literacy-focused, educational apps are nontraditional ways to help kids practice reading. Educational apps help families balance learning and fun. Apps like PBS KIDS Games, featuring some of the most ...
AZ Central

Learning to read can be difficult. How this group is teaching Arizona students to love it

Reading can unlock the world. It allows us to communicate, express ourselves and move throughout the world. However, not all Arizona students leave elementary school with the reading skills they need ...
NPR

A new way of teaching kids to read in Georgia

Outside, it was summer, but inside John Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Quantesha Pittman was teaching third graders to build words. "What's that first sound again?" she asked the room of about ...
Education Week

Talking to Students About Their Learning Differences: A Guide for Teachers

If, as a teacher, your student asks you what dyslexia is, can you answer? What about dyscalculia? Most students with learning differences are going to spend the majority of their time in general ...
Wall Street Journal

Learning to Read Begins Before Kindergarten

I am not surprised that “Kindergartners Arrive Less Ready for School Than Before Pandemic” (U.S. News, Jan. 13). As a former kindergarten and first-grade teacher who then spent 35 years preparing ...