Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten-month-old baby girl Brianna de Leon loves books. She is playing in her living room with her mother in Compton. (Francine Orr / ...

The goal is to make the reading scores on the National Association of Educational Progress — sometimes referred to as “the nation’s report card” — go from near the bottom to within the country’s top ...

Despite decades of research about how children learn to read, far too many schools across the country still rely on debunked methods and curriculum that fail students year after year. The most ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...

Books can give children a window into the emotional world. Through the eyes of a character in a story, children can explore feelings and viewpoints other than their own. They can see the social and ...

Balanced Literacy downplays structured phonics, where kids learn by memorizing letters' sounds. Is that why some are struggling to read?

NEW YORK -- The ABCs of reading are more like the AIOs. When children are learning to read, it's best to teach them the easiest skills first, usually identifying the short sounds of vowels -- such as ...

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Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...