In Meagan Beam’s dining room, a dozen 3D printers whir and clack away as they crank out plastic tiles with colorful raised letters, letter combinations and pictures on them. The tiles are part of a ...

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 ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...

Reading to dogs improves children's reading, study says. EAST NORWALK, Conn. Aug. 18, 2010— -- Man's best friend can do a lot more than fetch and roll over. Research now suggests that dogs can ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Encouraging a 1-year-old to turn the pages while reading a bedtime story, asking a 2-year-old to point to the butterfly on the page over breakfast, or bringing a word book on the bus to share with a ...

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 ...

EdSource · How a small rural school district is setting an example for school counseling statewide Gov. Gavin Newsom’s approval of Assembly Bill 1454 on Thursday marks the culmination of a five-year ...

Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...