Psychology and neuroscience provide intriguing answers.

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Despite decades of research about how children learn to read, far too many schools across the country still rely on debunked methods and curriculum that fail students year after year. The most ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

If you’re a parent of a young reader, would you rather start off in Manhattan or Mississippi? The answer may surprise you. Today, fourth-grade students in Mississippi read almost a full school year ...

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...

As a kindergarten teacher, a big part of Violet Nye’s job is teaching kids how to read. But the way she teaches her students is very different from how she learned as a kid. She remembers being taught ...

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