Story time is a highlight of the day for many young students, and teachers can boost engagement even further by adding costumes and sound effects.

Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

You read to me, and I’ll read to you! Do you enjoy reading aloud? Or were you a young person who sat, dreading being called on to read a selection out loud? There is a simple fix for this problem.

Reading bedtime stories is as important as changing diapers, but there’s a right way to do it. Research shows interactions such as reading and talking to your child can lead to a 30 million word ...

Pleasant Grove Independent School District Police Chief Jake Klar gives kindergarten students high fives as they start to ...

Wantagh’s youngest students had some special visitors in their classrooms—all there to share a story. World Read Aloud Day was celebrated throughout the Wantagh School District on Feb. 4, ...

I am not surprised that “Kindergartners Arrive Less Ready for School Than Before Pandemic” (U.S. News, Jan. 13). As a former kindergarten and first-grade teacher who then spent 35 years preparing ...

Why is it important for kids to learn about spring? In spring, kids discover new, budding plants and the birth of cute baby animals. And after a long winter, spring is a wonderful time to get back ...

Faced with the decision of whether to allow students with dyslexia and other print disabilities the option of having text passages on the common-core tests read aloud to them, the two federally ...

Any successful public speaking is meant to be eloquent. Its realization is very often the result of several exercises. Among these exercises, reading aloud is a very old practice whose origin lies in ...