As literacy rates lag, a pediatric hospital is screening for reading ability

For some young children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don’t start in the kindergarten classroom — they happen first in the doctor’s office.
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Robots in education may ease children’s reading anxiety

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nerve-wracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, ...
The Hechinger Report on MSN

Biting, kicking, wandering the classroom: Teachers say there’s a rise in misbehavior even among the littlest kids

SAN MATEO, Calif. — School had been in session at Lead Elementary for less than an hour, but already Andrea Quinn had paused ...
KSL

A new way to improve children's reading — with a horse, of course

KAYSVILLE — Since December, Allie Garlick has become accustomed to elementary school teachers listening to her with a bit of doubt. She understands it. After all, she is approaching them to talk about ...
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Volunteers boost children's enjoyment of reading

Getting children reading in schools is helping them become "more confident, more imaginative and more creative", a charity has said. Read With Me currently works in 110 out of the 244 primary schools ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

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 ...