If Texas links state reading tests to a state reading list, teachers will be motivated to focus on content, not isolated skills.

Teaching knowledge and vocabulary helps students learn, but education professors prefer "engagement" to learning.

"Balanced literacy" guru Lucy Calkins has become the " scapegoat for America's reading crisis ," suggests Helen Lewis in The Atlantic. ...

My visiting eight-month-old granddaughter crawl-flopped past the teething toys to chew on the metal leg of the coffee table. "Try the...

Angie Hackman teaches chemistry -- and reading, reports Hechinger's Julian Roberts-Grmela. Every teacher at Health Sciences High and...

After a long battle to persuade educators they need to teach phonics, systematically and explicitly, the science of reading has moved on...

In Portage, Michigan, fourth graders are reading about hurricanes -- including words such as "atmosphere" -- in their English Language...

"Chatty Chick chats in church" in a poem used by reading tutors. Last year, the second grader I was tutoring was shocked at Chatty...

Once students can sound out words, the next step is teaching comprehension, writes Matt Bardin on The 74. Once a middle and high school...