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 ...

Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town outside Concord, N.H. In the world of literacy education, that is not an ...

A recent report from NWEA found that middle schoolers are showing a noticeable decline in reading abilities. The findings surmise that this is in part due to lack of in-person instruction during the ...

Virginia is now the first state in a recent wave of reading legislation to require schools to offer dedicated support for struggling readers through 8th grade—an expansion of the state’s literacy law ...

PreK-12 literacy solution provider EPS Learning has introduced EPS Reading Accelerator, a Tier 2 reading intervention program for middle school students with gaps in phonemic awareness, phonics, ...

With the help of the read-alouds in class and continued fluency skill-building, Julie now has a favorite author: Lurlene ...

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At one Tucson Unified School District K-8 school, the math, reading and writing skills of sixth through eighth graders are slightly lower or about the same as those of fifth graders. At one district ...

Karime Munoz, a sixth-grader at Northwest Middle School, waited in line with an armful of books. She was ready to dive into the “Dork Diaries,” recently acquired by her school library. “I’m most ...

Books on the shelf at M.H. Moore Elementary School on Aug. 13, 2024. Amanda McCoy [email protected] In the Fort Worth Independent School District and across Texas, conversations about literacy ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

California Law Pushes Phonics-Based Reading Instruction for Elementary and Middle School Students California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom ...