Digital platforms can help make reading aloud independently more engaging and get kids excited about literacy practice.

The Poland Central School District has opened registration for Universal Pre-K and Kindergarten for the 2026–27 school year.

At one preschool, sign language is part of the daily curriculum, helping even the youngest learners communicate and stay ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called "systematic ...

Dominic Wyse currently receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust and The Welsh Government. Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Education Secretary will set out the core tenets of the Government’s forthcoming Schools White Paper in a speech to a conference. The Education Secretary will set an ambition for 90% of pupils to ...

Government "pressure” on schools in phonics means that the overall books budget is increasingly squeezed, The Bookseller’s Children’s Conference has heard. The panel "How the book trade can help ...

At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can see ...

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 ...

If students don’t learn how to read in school, not much else that happens there is going to matter. This might be a harsh way of putting it, but it’s the truth. Being unable to read makes it nearly ...

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...