Phonics gets more attention in elementary English/language arts classrooms than other core foundational reading skills, like fluency. More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing foundational ...

Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...

Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are ...

Think back to a time when hands-on habits were just part of growing up. Many boomers picked up practical skills before they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hi. My name is Alexa, and I used to teach high school English Language Arts. It's a piece of lore I try to forget about — mainly ...