Baigelman: Alternative texts let classes practice grade-level skills together, regardless of individual students' differences ...

The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade level by ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

If you have an elementary school student who tested below grade level in reading, the New Worlds Reading program will give them free books.

According to some teachers and college professors, children aren’t reading as many whole books anymore. But just how widespread is this purported trend, and what does it mean for students’ literacy ...

School librarian Karen Rickert reads a book about a sloth to a group of soon-to-be first graders at Kennedy Elementary in ...

During my first year as a fifth-grade teacher, I taught a student who had moved from the Dominican Republic three weeks before school started. She spoke very little English and I spoke no Spanish, so ...