She asks her students if they can feel the way the words sound as they speak. "Say it again and see if you feel it in your vocal cords," Fuxa prompts her reading instruction class, held last October.

Arkansas' ongoing effort to transform the teaching of reading to better align with research and to improve student achievement has hit some milestones, state Division of Elementary and Secondary ...

Science of reading emphasizes phonics and the rules of the English language. A new law requires schools to align their reading curricula with science of reading. New state training aims to teach ...

Hannah Hughes is playing a game with a group of second graders at Johnson Elementary School in Kingsport, Tennessee, who are still working on their reading skills. Hughes shows the group the word ...

Few experts on reading instruction or teacher preparation are likely to dispute the overall conclusion of a new report that suggests most colleges of education are doing an inadequate job of preparing ...

Books can be difficult to teach for several reasons. They can be too stuffy, profane, archaic, mundane or pretentious. There are many students who would happily banish novels like these from their ...