Melissa Taylor is a former teacher and literacy trainer as well as a mother of two, blogger, and children’s book expert. She created and writes the popular blog Imagination Soup. She is also a ...

A recent EdSource podcast asks: “Why do so many students struggle to learn to read?” An equally essential question is: Why were so many struggling readers improving before the pandemic? The ...

With a post-pandemic drop in North Carolina reading proficiency scores, it is all hands on deck to turn the situation around. One way educators and librarians are trying to do this is by nurturing a ...

U.S. elementary school students have been displaying declining reading achievement, particularly among those who are struggling. For example, the average scores among 4th-grade students in the lowest ...

Phonics is more than just letter sounds — it’s the bridge to confident reading. From hands-on toolkits to interactive games, teachers and parents now have endless ways to make learning engaging. With ...

Comics for Emerging and early readers, and for parents and caregivers to read aloud, focus on big-feeling topics this season, such as finding friends in a new school year and venturing away from home ...

Supporting delayed readers requires a thoughtful and research-informed approach. These students can make meaningful gains when provided with targeted reading intervention strategies tailored to their ...

There’s a settled body of research on how best to teach early reading. But when it comes to the multitude of curriculum choices that schools have, it’s often hard to parse whether well-marketed ...

Cueing has, for decades now, been a staple of early reading instruction. The strategy—which is also known as three-cueing, or MSV—involves prompting students to draw on context and sentence structure, ...

Kids in Massachusetts, and nationwide, are behind on reading. In her State of the Commonwealth address at the beginning of this year, Gov. Maura Healey proposed a $30 million investment over five ...

BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–Kids in Massachusetts, and nationwide, are behind on reading. In her State of the Commonwealth address at the beginning of this year, Gov. Maura Healey proposed a $30 million ...