Built-in screen readers improve the accessibility of texts and can help students achieve success in building higher-level ...
Connecting writing with media literacy. We routinely connect writing with reading, but how often do you connect writing with media literacy? Children are both consumers and creators of media. Writing ...
There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...
Five recommendations can strengthen digital literacy teaching and learning in ways that are equity-centered and grounded in the experiences of educators, students, and communities.
In a significant move to improve literacy among students, Marlow Public Schools has expanded its reading support team at Marlow Elementary.
For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...
There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...
The auditorium packed with Bessemer City third graders buzzed as little hands shot into the air, excited to ask 15-year-old best-selling author, Nia Mya Reese, about how she started reading and ...
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, ...
With educators under enormous pressure to make sure students meet grade level standards in reading and math, writing often takes a back seat in the curriculum, as many literacy experts have observed.
Improving literacy instruction is once again in fashion among America’s policy circles. Between 2019 and 2022, state legislatures passed more than 200 bills that sought to push and pull public schools ...
SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) has launched Oregon’s Adolescent Literacy Framework, aiming to enhance reading and writing skills for approximately 309,000 middle and ...