Just five years ago, Oliver James couldn’t read. This week, he became a published author. For 32 years of his life, the personal trainer was functionally illiterate. He was branded a troublemaker in ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to ...

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 ...

My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...

Elaine Reese has received funding from the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand. One key change is a renewed focus on phonics (mapping sounds to letters). But an overemphasis on phonics ...

Reading has quietly shifted from a reflective habit to a functional task for students driven by outcomes. As digital ...

English as a second language students can practice by reading books about their culture. For children who are learning English as their second language, it can be beneficial to read books that relate ...