My 12-year-old couldn't read, and even as an educator, I had no idea why. It turned out he had dyslexia

My son's dyslexia went overlooked for years. After getting proper phonics-based instruction, he finally learned to read — and ...

Y Reads takes struggling kids from 'learning to read' to 'reading to learn'

Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading 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 ...
Education Week

These Teachers Have Their Students Read Multiple Novels a Year. How They Do It

A popular diagram for teaching plot structure to middle and high school students looks like a mountain, mapping out exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It’s an apt ...
NPR

Research shows social-emotional learning can boost grades and test scores

A new peer-reviewed analysis shows K-12 students who got regular access to social and emotional learning had better test scores and better grades. There's been some debate about whether schools should ...
Education Week

When Older Students Can’t Read: How This Middle School Is Tackling Literacy

Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town outside Concord, N.H. In the world of literacy education, that is not an ...
The Citizen

The magic years: Helping 10–12-year-olds fall in love with reading

Singarum emphasises that at ages 10–12, children are shaping their identities. When adults nurture a love of reading, they’re not just helping academically, they’re giving young people lifelong tools ...