Find out why teaching English spelling explicitly is essential for literacy and why shortchanging spelling instruction is ...

Some studies have shown that a close reading session causes more widespread brain activity than skimming. For example, a grad student might read a text closely so that they can remember the ...

New book recommends that educators broaden focus with history and science to help students go deeper and learn more.

The Reading Brain In A Digital World, while our brains are primed for language acquisition, they are not innately programmed to read; reading is a learnt skill. But brain plasticity works both ...

Nearly everyone backs the science of reading. Why did it take eight years to update the UNC System's literacy curriculum?

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered a surprising truth about the speed of human thought: our ...

Grouping English Learners in Classrooms Yields No Benefit in Reading Development, New Study Finds Oct. 19, 2023 — Grouping English learners together in classrooms, a longstanding practice in ...

Becoming literate changes and impacts all future thinking, as stated by professors Gentry and Ouellette in Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching: “The neurological reading ...