Using Students’ Emotional Responses to Texts to Boost Literacy

Naming the emotions that a text evokes can make reading more personal for students and deepen their learning.

Experts, parents say there are gaps in efforts to help students with dyslexia learn to read

Experts, parents say there are gaps in efforts to help students with dyslexia learn to read

A Legal Right to Literacy: 10 Kids Sued California for Failing to Teach Them to Read. Could Their Settlement Set a Precedent for Other Struggling Schools?

10 kids took California to task for failing to teach them to read. Their legal settlement could be a road map to literacy in other struggling schools

Why learning to read relies on content

Reading comprehension is a product of decoding and language comprehension, CAO Summit speaker says

Children are reading less than ever before, research reveals

Just a quarter of kids under the age of 18 read each day, study shows in run-up to World Book Day

If We Want Bookworms, We Need to Get Beyond Leveled Reading

When it comes to nurturing kids’ love of reading, research suggests variety, choice—and encouragement to stretch—can make a difference.

Rotherham: Phonics. Whole Language. Balanced Literacy. The Problem Isn’t That We Don’t Know How to Teach Reading — It’s Politics

Reading isn’t just the latest obsession of ed advocates; it’s a real issue in people’s lives. Deny people literacy, and you deny them freedom, agency — even humanity. Unfortunately, national data show we do that systematically

This is your child’s brain on books: Scans show benefit of reading vs. screen time

Taking away screens and reading to our children during the formative years of birth to age 5 boosts brain development. We all know that's true, but now science can convince us with startling images.

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