Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...
Two prominent California advocacy organizations for English learners are firmly opposing a new state bill that would mandate that reading instruction be aligned with the “science of reading,” saying ...
Apps, e-books, and AI tutors now shape the way we approach language, and nowhere is that shift more visible than in the ...
Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were ...
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Reading unlocks learning

Of all the skills a child can develop, reading may be the most important. It opens the door to ideas, knowledge, and opportunity. It gives young people access to information and the ability to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Gavin Newsom reading to kindergartners at Washington Elementary School in Sacramento. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) A ...
Our love of literacy is rooted in our personal experiences as students, and we both have lengthy histories in education, specifically with language arts. Though our lenses were different, we both saw ...
As the pandemic drove a sudden, massive and necessary shift to online education last year, students were forced to access much of their school reading assignments digitally. Turning so heavily to ...