Education Week

How One District Approaches the ‘Science of Reading’ With English Learners

First grader Aizlynn Castillo works on an assignment in Diana Oviedo-Holguin’s English-learner class at Heritage Elementary ...
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Do you really need to read to learn? What neuroscience says about reading versus listening

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. “Do we need to read, or can we just get ...
Education Week

How the ‘Science of Reading’ Can Support English Learners

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

Study: Identifying kids who need help learning to read isn't as easy as A, B, C

In most states, schools are required to screen students as they enter kindergarten—a process that is meant to identify ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
Boise State University

Center for Teaching and Learning to host ‘Getting your students to do the reading’ workshop

Join the Center for Teaching and Learning for lunch and a talk about strategies to overcome that perennial challenge: getting students to do the reading. Jennifer Black of the Department of English ...
WSMV

Man learning to read at 66 encourages others: ‘All you have to do is want to learn’

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD/Gray News) - A Texas man is proving it’s never too late to learn to read, and he hopes his story will be inspiring to others. Servennia Wyatt, 66, has been working on his reading ...
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UK universities teach students how to cope with long novels as young people 'worry about reading'

Universities across Britain are teaching literature students how to cope with long novels. These initiatives, referred to as "reading resilience" courses at some institutions, address concentration ...