Celebrate the joy of reading for pleasure with this World Book Day 2026 Live Lesson and supporting teaching resources.

I’ve shared many posts on reading instruction over the past 12 years. Today, four teachers share their favorite reading lessons. Two of today’s contributors, along with another veteran teacher, talked ...

In recent years, the once-esoteric term “evidence-based reading instruction” has spread beyond research institutions to become part of the vernacular of classroom teachers tasked with teaching young ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

After 14 years in education, I consider myself to be a good reading teacher. Unfortunately, the path to getting where I am today was a long, frustrating journey. Growing up, as the child of two ...

For decades, reading scores have remained stagnant at best, and the pandemic made things even worse. K–12 teachers at every grade level have students who struggle to read, and regardless of their ...

Roughly half of Texas students read below grade level, but when teachers craft lessons to help them, they often rely on instructional materials that aren't rigorous enough. Many teachers use search ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, will be officially retired and replaced with a literacy performance assessment to ensure educators are ...