Allycia Uhrhan’s 6th graders at Truman Middle School in St. Louis started their field-science week collecting data on fish hatching at nearby Forest Park. But the trip really started the prior week, ...

This ‘scat-step-segment’ routine helps students experience language in a fun, musical way that feels natural to them.

Aconceptual model to describe how literacy develops is shown in Figure 1. It shows several key factors that affect learners’ literacy development—the learning context, texts and tools, literacy ...

Just as a gardener plants seeds and nurtures them into strong, flourishing plants, early childhood educators have the opportunity to nurture the earliest seeds of literacy in young children. When ...

Some psychologists say teaching emotional literacy in school is key to better behavior — and better grades. Marc Brackett and Maurice Elias, two experts in social emotional learning, talk about how ...

Corrected: A previous version of this piece misspelled Michael Ford’s name. A cautionary tale: Not long ago, I was assisting a school district that had adopted a prominently endorsed literacy program.

The way Missourians are learning to read in schools is evolving, but gaps in literacy also go beyond the classroom. Books are ...

SUNY Cortland’s graduate program in literacy is offered exclusively online with hands-on field experience completed virtually with K-12 students. Our part-time schedules are ideal for full-time ...

A strong foundation in both writing and reading is critical to your success at Western Michigan University. Before you meet with your academic advisor for your one-on-one advising meeting, you should ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...