Los Angeles Times

Reading by 9: Hone these 4 pre-reading skills to get your child reading ready

Literacy is built on the below pre-reading skills. These are the foundations of your child’s path to becoming fluent readers. These skills are supported when you, as a parent, use the five early ...
The Hechinger Report

‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
Kansas City Star

Here’s how Mid-Continent Library helps kids grow reading skills, one story at a time

Andrew McKinley works with the Mid-Century Library to make a YouTube video. The library will regularly add videos of library staff reading, doing finger plays or singing. Beth Lipoff Special to The ...
Education Week

How Much Time Should Teachers Spend on a Foundational Reading Skill? Research Offers Clues

A reading block in an elementary school classroom can feel like a carefully choreographed 120-minute dance. Time is a finite resource, and it often falls to teachers to make decisions about how much ...
Los Angeles Times

Signs of dyslexia and reading troubles can be spotted in kindergarten — or even preschool

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California to begin universal screening of kindergarten through second-grade students for reading difficulties, ...
Education Week

There Are Four Foundational Reading Skills. Why Do We Only Talk About Phonics?

Here’s the good news: Most educators have gotten the message that K-5 students need to learn the foundational reading skills outlined in the common core and other college and career-ready standards: ...
The Conversation

Starting behind: more than half of young Australian kids living in adversity don’t have the skills they need to learn to read

Director, Center for Community Child Health Royal Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Theme Director Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research ...
EdSurge

Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It’s nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. She’s also one of the people having the most fun. Parsing education data ...
Medicine Buffalo

Study shows how reading skill shapes more than just reading

A UB researcher’s recent work on dyslexia has unexpectedly produced a startling discovery that clearly demonstrates how the cooperative areas of the brain responsible for reading skill are also at ...