Sign up for EdSource’s free daily newsletter to stay ahead of what’s changing in California education. Controversies over how best to teach children to read go ...

A recent controversy in the reading world is whether findings from reading research, sometimes referred to contemporaneously as the “science of reading,” apply to students who are not proficient in ...

Educators have been dismayed to see a significant drop in children’s reading scores since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, literacy has been an important value in the country since its ...

There are several ways that people might read words. They can sound out and blend letters to decode words. They can read new words by analogy; for example, if they already know play and jump, they can ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

Study after study has shown that reading on screens just doesn’t have the same benefit as reading print books. But where does that leave teachers, who often are required to use both formats in their ...

"I've gone through my English vocabulary book many times.""I know the meanings of the words, but I can't read long passages.""When I come across a word I don't know, I get stuck."When tutoring medical ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

After classes at Raines High School, Ronnie Gadio heads to North Shore Elementary. That’s where Gadio, an 18-year-old senior, works as a Read USA tutor. He has a story that goes beyond statistics ...

Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate ...