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Summer vacation gives your child a much-needed break from school routines, which is important. But, at the same time, it can also result in what educators call the summer slide or "brain drain" — a ...

The benefits of reading with children are innumerable. Children who read with their caregivers report higher levels of reading comprehension, fluency and self-confidence. But do you know of its mental ...

(AP) — They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020. Now, they’re the big ...

When we read, we use many parts of our brain. We use vivid imagery as well as memory to follow a plot, or main idea. Reading can be like mental gymnastics for the brain. Recent research supports the ...

Simply focusing on fixing early years’ reading instruction ignores the roughly two-thirds of middle and high school students, about 17 million kids, who haven’t yet reached so-called reading ...

First grade teacher Emily VanDerhoff, who is also a member of the Fairfax County NAACP’s education committee, was incorporating phonics into her lessons before Fairfax County renewed its focus on how ...

Diamond, a third grader in Jefferson Parish, does a timed reading exercise with her summer school teacher, Emily Gurtner. Emily Gurtner sits at a small table in the corner of her third-grade classroom ...