A one-on-one reading tutor works with a student at 95th Street School in Milwaukee. A renewed focus on literacy across the public school district and the city is backed by tutoring groups, the new ...

Threading prior knowledge into new material makes for more durable learning. Here are 12 research-backed, teacher-tested strategies to help kids unpack what they already know.

Ms. Genn teaching about predictions during a recent reading lesson. Credit: Maya McFadden Photo As her kindergarteners quietly raised their hands to build their prediction skills and guess what might ...

An elementary school teacher smartly used food to teach her students a lesson. Kayleigh Sloan teaches a creative writing class to first and second-graders. To teach a valuable lesson about where the ...

Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town outside Concord, N.H. In the world of literacy education, that is not an ...