The Alabama Senate passed a bill Thursday morning that bans the use of an education strategy known as the three-cueing system ...

An Alabama law would ban elementary teachers from using an outdated method of reading instruction. SB168 would prohibit ...

State lawmakers have a better grasp of how legislation passed in 2024 and 2025 are affecting reading instruction in the state ...

In the Sept. 26, 2025, opinion essay, “Small-Group Reading Instruction Is Not as Effective as You Think,” authors Mike Schmoker and Timothy Shanahan list shortcomings of small-group reading ...

Jamilah Watson, a reading tutor with the program Reading Assist, works with a rising kindergartner at Stubbs Early Education Center in Wilmingon, Delaware. This was the first year that Reading Assist ...

American students’ reading scores have stagnated for more than 30 years. What needs to change? Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for ...

4. Sight Word mastery (words that do not follow the rules of phonics). Text reading is a combination of phonemic mastery, phonics mastery, and sight word memorization. We combine all three every time ...

Keeping a few key questions in mind may help detect bad faith arguments and half-baked ideas. In A Nutshell Swedish researchers tested whether written instructions alone could help people evaluate ...

“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness, ...

Jefferson County Public Schools will revisit how it teaches students to read and by next year will roll out a new reading curriculum required for all district elementary schools, according to ...

FIU’s undergraduate elementary teacher preparation program has been named one of the top in the country by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ). The program in the School of Education and ...