Explore research on handwriting automaticity and sentence construction, plus strategies to improve writing instruction across grades K–3.

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Today’s middle schoolers continue to struggle post-pandemic to read and write at the level needed to successfully navigate more complex academic content in the upper grades and beyond, according to a ...

According to the Literacy Council of Fort Bend County, 19% of adults, or about 154,000 - 174,000 people in Fort Bend County, ...

While most teachers are eager to implement the science of reading, many lack the time and tools to connect these practices to home-based support, according to a new national survey from Lexia, a ...

A high level of literacy in both print and digital media is required for negotiating most aspects of 21st-century life—supporting a family, education, health, civic participation, and competitiveness ...

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Books, beats, and big dreams brought hundreds of families together at the fourth annual Westside Literacy and Reading Festival, where organizers say their mission was simple: “Open a book, open a mind ...

Literacy is power and possibility, open doors and fleshed-out ideas. It breeds independence and understanding, not to mention nuance and capability. Literacy is a future. And it sure has come a long ...