Researchers at Laurentian University are reading French books to preschoolers this month to determine the best ways to teach them new words.

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Experts tell Newsweek why parents should let kids make mistakes, learn from experience, and even face a few natural consequences.

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities Controversies over how best to teach children to read go back many years. Most recently, two questions have ...

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...

The nation's largest public school system is flipping the script when it comes to teaching children how to read, as the New York City Schools chancellor says the old way has not been working for ...

When journalist Conz Preti brought her three children to visit family in Argentina in 2022, her four-year-old son did something surprising. "He just started fluently speaking in Spanish with my family ...

At a meeting with parents in May, Elizabeth Phillips, a longtime principal at P.S. 321, a highly sought-after elementary school in Park Slope, didn’t mince words about the new reading curricula being ...