What types of skills do first-year primary school children in education priority areas need most to learn to read? To find out, scientists conducted a study of 394 children at the end of their first ...

Learning to read, unlike speaking, walking, or understanding the world around us, is not something humans do naturally.

Although U.S. kids have made progress in decoding words, leading to a slight uptick in elementary-grade reading scores over the past two decades, they’re still shaky at the second part of ...

“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced a major change for New York schools that would ensure students improve reading proficiency. Hochul unveiled the Back to Basics plan during the ...

University of Georgia undergraduate education classes are tutoring reading skills with kindergarteners this spring in a local high poverty school. We are trying to support the children as they get on ...