“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

A teacher in the classroom Over 90% of students can’t identify letter names, letter sounds or read simple words at expected ...

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Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...

My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...

Music training seems to boost reading skills in young children by enhancing their ability to recognise and manipulate the sounds that make up words. Learning to play an instrument has long been linked ...

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This post wraps up a seven-part series on small moves teachers can make that can lead to outsized impacts on student achievement. Lindsay Kemeny is an elementary school teacher, speaker, and co-host ...

A new global report has called for urgent, evidence-based interventions to address the growing literacy crisis among children, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where an ...