This week's challenge comes from Greg VanMechelen, of Berkeley, California. Name something you don't want to have at night using two words (3,5). Shift each of the letters of the second word nine ...

This Black History Month spotlight features a new collection of Spanish stories designed to help kids learn to read ...

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...

The initial finding dates all the way back to 1947, when someone discovered that people associated some word-like sounds with ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

Included in the READ Act is the requirement that the department create an advisory list of evidence-based or scientifically ...

This rare speech motor disorder prevents effective speech planning, leaving some children persistently difficult to understand without specialist support.

A vocabulary and phonics lesson is rarely the most exciting part of the school day — unless you’re in Grace Olsson’s first-grade class. There, students clap as they sound out words, hold seated poses ...

Kentucky lawmakers are again seeking to ban 'three-cueing,' a reading instruction method, with the goal of shifting to a Science of Reading approach.

Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

An NPO's highly effective literacy programme, Jolly Phonics, aims to improve reading and writing outcomes for children.

In early reading, first graders who are behind have an 88 percent chance of still being behind in fourth grade--rigor and ...