Each month, Dayton Daily News reporter Eileen McClory highlights local ideas that improve outcomes for students and teachers in the Dayton area.

One criticism of the science of reading is that phonics can be boring. Gee Macrory, a British scholar, says that decodable ...

One by one, first graders at Orleans Elementary School hit the runway in the school gymnasium to show off their love of letters ...

Restoring literacy demands we treat reading as more than a skill, but as a gateway to wisdom and understanding.

There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...

When it comes to reading, middle school students need foundational literacy instruction that respects age, cognitive ...

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

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...

It’s out with the new and in with the old again for students in South Dakota’s English and Language Arts classrooms. The South Dakota Board of Education Standards approved revisions to the English and ...