“Pat the Bunny,” the 1940 classic touch-and-feel book, is still in print—a testament to the value of touch in introducing infants and toddlers to the world of reading. Later, when children reach ...

Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using different ...

What’s the best way to teach reading to beginners in preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or home school and how can we do it better? Both research and practice are offering a novel idea: teach kids ...

Indulge me and say the following out loud: Students should read fewer books and write less expository prose. Did that feel right? I doubt it. But that’s the message the National Council of Teachers of ...

This online resources helps middle school students improve their literacy. The site provides games and 120 hours of supplemental resources. Teachers can access free digital lesson library online to ...

The State Board of Education approved Thursday new standards for English classes and reading and writing lessons. The new ...

This is a guest post by Rachel Jamison Webster. This fall, students returned to school with AI software embedded in Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Students will use AI to do research and to generate ...

A study has found that although there were steep learning losses in reading for elementary school students during the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person learning opportunities helped some of those students ...

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can writing support reading instruction? In Part One, Tony Zani, Mary Tedrow, Mary Beth Nicklaus, Colleen Cruz, and Pam Allyn shared their responses. You ...

Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo has received funding in the past from the National Science Foundation, Sesame Workshop, Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research, and Drexel University.