Exactly how much reading of whole books—especially novels—students should be doing is a contested topic, with no clear ...

Recent research shows that young children typically manipulate and rotate entire objects in their minds to understand ...

While not mandatory, the law provides support for phonics — focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out — to ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

Washington, D.C. — National reading performance trends reveal that students’ reading scores have been steadily declining over the past decade and steepened further in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The Common Core has now been around long enough that it’s all that many of the students we teach in college have known, and ...

My tween-age daughters make me proud in countless ways, but I am still adjusting to the fact that they are not bookworms. I’m ...

Data from a ‘phonics check’ of new entrants is too incomplete to draw firm conclusions from, and word recognition is not the ...

New Yorker writers recommend books—including a history of the term “gold-digger” and a roman à clef about an Amazon warehouse ...

READING, Pa. - The investigation of a body found along River Road resulted in homicide charges for one Reading man. 61-year-old Jose Rodriguez is charged with first degree murder, abuse of corpse and ...

Assembly Bill 1454 marks a turning point in California in a long-running debate over how to teach kids to read. For decades, ...

Alabama, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Mississippi—have shown that adopting more rigorous literacy standards and scientific ...