Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With American schools facing a literacy crisis, the “Mississippi miracle” has become the poster child for improved reading ...

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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 ...

This article by Stephanie N. Del Tufo, assistant professor of education and human development at the University of Delaware, has been republished with permission from The Conversation’s Curious Kids ...

Reading fluency — the ability to read accurately, automatically and with appropriate expression — remains a critical yet often overlooked component of literacy development. According to the National ...

An oft-cited phrase is that students “learn to read, then read to learn.” It’s time to put that phrase to bed. Students do need to learn the fundamentals of reading in the early grades, including ...

Over 500 Escambia County public school students have been enrolled in YMCA Reads! Program is currently offered at seven ECPS elementary schools and helps struggling readers catch back up with their ...

The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...

Dr. Ashley Stephens from Cabell County Schools stopped by First Look at Four to talk about the importance of community partnerships. Dustin Holston from Advanced Nutrition Solutions stopped by First ...

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 CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. “Do we need to read, or can we just get ...