Fordham Institute and the RAND Corp., asked more than 1,200 K-3 teachers in the fall of 2025 about their perspectives on reading instruction, the practices they use in their classrooms, the training ...

Educators don’t need to choose between building students’ knowledge and teaching reading comprehension strategies. The question isn’t whether to teach strategies—it’s how to do it and when. “Are we ...

Teaching Strategies has been honored with a 2026 EdTech Cool Tool Award for its Creative Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers, recognized as an outstanding curriculum and instruction solution. Designed ...

A wave of new resources, teaching strategies, and policy developments is reshaping how early literacy is taught, blending traditional phonics with digital tools, interactive play, and evidence-based ...

To the editor: Education professor Allison Briceño fears overemphasizing foundational skills such as phonics will take time away from writing, favor already advantaged children and ignore the needs of ...

Brooke Tepper, a special education resource teacher at Columbus School in Carteret, N.J., works on reading fluency with first graders, giving them parts to read aloud in a short play. Credit: Caralee ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

Many years ago, around 2010, I attended a professional development program in Houston called Literacy Through Photography, at a time when I was searching for practical ways to strengthen comprehension ...

We are literacy professionals, former reading teachers who now prepare college and graduate students to teach kids how to read. As scholars, we believe in the study, exchange and debate of ideas. But ...