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 ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

As a coalition representing educators, parents, business leaders, and other advocates, we were disturbed by the Feb. 4 op-ed “The fallacy of settled science in literacy.” Nancy Carlsson-Paige and ...

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...

My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...