Minnesota schools are working now to overhaul literacy teaching to comply with a new state statute, the Read Act. A visit to ...

If we want to engage children’s brains and help them learn, this study says we should teach them the “write” way... with loops and strokes and connected letters. That’s right: Old timey ...

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading ...

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

Teaching children to write by hand seems to have some ... to five to see if there was a difference later in recognising the letters. Their evidence suggested that writing by hand helped the ...

Do you want to help your kids practice kindness more often? Here's a list of kindness activities for kids--small ways to ...

She said nothing about making our teacher teach better. Going to school after ... We have HUD and WIC and numerous social services. I realize that kids cannot learn if hungry or tired but our ...