A kindergarten student raises her hand during a reading lesson in Jennifer Lee’s class at Southwest Primary School in Hickory, N.C. Credit: Ariel Gilreath for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...
For some elementary school students, reading lessons are an opportunity to get messy and get out of their seats. Kids learning how to map letters to sounds might trace A’s and B’s in sand or shaving ...
Starr Elementary School in Grand Island hosted a family literacy night combining reading activities, art projects, and library outreach. Families received free books, created bookmarks, and explored ...
Common terms in the teaching of reading: Phonics is the identification of the sounds letters make in a word and is the basis of learning to read. Decoding means translating a printed word to speech ...
After two years of pandemic disruptions to students’ reading progress, schools nationwide are scrambling for ways to help them progress faster. Small-group instruction in reading is one of the most ...
For the past two years across Omaha Public Schools elementary classrooms, there has been a renewed focus on literacy.
In previous years, teacher Lovina Shahid had difficulty helping her first graders learn vowel sounds. So, she read up on evidence-based reading programs, hoping to help the students, many of whom ...