Humans are hard-wired to appreciate stories, and there is a huge diversity of stories geared toward upper elementary and middle school students. However, interest in reading and learning often ...

Between kindergarten and second grade, much of the school day is dedicated to helping our youngest students master phonics, syllabication, and letter-sound correspondence–the essential building blocks ...

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers ...

When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired by the “Mississippi miracle,” other Southern states followed suit. But the ...

World Book today announced a new way for individual teachers to experience ClassMate by World Book, the award-winning middle school reading and learning platform previously available only through ...

All Students as Proactive Readers’ The government’s final goal in the ‘School Reading Education Activation Plan’ announced on ...

Last Wednesday, 11-year-old Geniya sat in a corner of the library at Ockley Green Middle School in North Portland, where she’ll be a sixth grader this fall, intently concentrating on spelling the word ...