Los Angeles Times

Reading by 9: Hone these 4 pre-reading skills to get your child reading ready

Literacy is built on the below pre-reading skills. These are the foundations of your child’s path to becoming fluent readers. These skills are supported when you, as a parent, use the five early ...
Kansas City Star

Here’s how Mid-Continent Library helps kids grow reading skills, one story at a time

Andrew McKinley works with the Mid-Century Library to make a YouTube video. The library will regularly add videos of library staff reading, doing finger plays or singing. Beth Lipoff Special to The ...
The Hechinger Report

‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
Education Week

One Reading Skill Might Be Responsible for Many Older Students’ Struggles

The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...
EdSurge

Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It’s nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. She’s also one of the people having the most fun. Parsing education data ...
The Boston Globe

A Maine educator didn’t have a curriculum to teach a foundational reading skill. So she created one.

In Raymond Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten classroom, boys and girls huddled together on a rug with their teacher to learn a foundational skill for reading and spelling: how to pull apart and put ...
Los Angeles Times

Signs of dyslexia and reading troubles can be spotted in kindergarten — or even preschool

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California to begin universal screening of kindergarten through second-grade students for reading difficulties, ...
Education Week

There Are Four Foundational Reading Skills. Why Do We Only Talk About Phonics?

Here’s the good news: Most educators have gotten the message that K-5 students need to learn the foundational reading skills outlined in the common core and other college and career-ready standards: ...