Today, fourth-grade students in Mississippi read almost a full school year ahead of their peers in New York City, according to national test scores.

Michigan ranked 44th in the nation when it comes to fourth grade reading scores last year. That's according to a recent ...

Schools do their best to encourage students to read for pleasure and the school library has a core role to play. Heather ...

Last year, Michigan ranked 44th in the nation when it comes to fourth grade reading scores. A recent report from the Education Trust Midwest shows third through eighth graders are still three quarters ...

Literacy is one of the cornerstones of educational fairness and crucial for lifelong success. Yet, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the ...

Legislation passed in 2019 required Texas school districts to offer instruction based upon the science of reading. That was a ...

US schools are going all in on phonics, but research shows that approach won’t work for every child. A blended literacy ...

But that doesn’t mean teachers should abandon comprehension strategies. It’s common for reading programs to work on comprehension skills sequentially, spending a week or two giving students ...

The March 20 article, “Reading Comprehension Teaching Has Improved ... I was drafting a lesson on the figurative language used in a 4th grade novel. National reading expert David Liben was ...