*Julia Irwin, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, SCSU; senior scientist, Haskins Laboratories *Laura Raynolds, Ph.D., associate professor of special education ...

Ready Readers volunteers visit classrooms in low-income communities to read aloud to young children, which can help build early literacy skills in preparation for kindergarten. Studies show that ...

IXL has introduced a detailed, day-by-day pre-kindergarten reading skill plan aimed at building phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The structured program aligns ...

The first week of November this year marks National Children’s Book Week, the nation’s oldest and most celebrated literacy initiative. Reading with young children creates cherished memories and ...

E-books have emerged as a dynamic tool in early education, combining digital text with multimedia elements to support emergent literacy development. Their interactive design not only captures young ...

Palo Alto Unified sorely needed to improve. Despite ample resources and a reputation as one of California’s top districts, we were dramatically failing high-need students in education’s most ...

With support from the W.T. Grant Foundation, University of Delaware partners with the Delaware Department of Education to improve K-3 literacy outcomes Delaware’s commitment to enhancing literacy ...

HOLYOKE ― The state is giving Holyoke Public Schools a grant to focus on developing literacy among students in the early grades. Holyoke Schools received a $20,598 grant through a program that aims to ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Are you getting everything you could from your early literacy data? Too often, early literacy results can flag which students are struggling, but don’t reveal the “why” or point to the way forward.

Improving early literacy is not just an early education issue – it is one of Arizona’s most powerful strategies for economic success and expanding opportunity.