Words are all around us and not just in books. Students need to know that words have meaning. Educators call this print awareness. At this early stage, surround learners with English words and sounds.

In 2015, the University of Iowa analyzed the impact of educational television for toddlers and whether it was an effective ...

Helping a child discover reading at an early age can have benefits that reach far beyond recognizing words on a page. This guide looks at three reasons early reading can make such a difference. From ...

Amplify, a creator of high-quality teaching and learning experiences for K–12, released a national research brief showing that early reading scores were unchanged from the prior year across grades K–2 ...

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.

Ohio changed both an Early Literacy measure and the star-rating thresholds for 2025-26, complicating year-to-year comparisons ...

Teachers everywhere do something every day – they give instructions. We sometimes call this “instructional classroom language.” Some instructions help to manage a class. Other instructions explain how ...

Chelsea Clinton was in Homestead to highlight local efforts supporting children’s literacy.

As a key element in the state’s package of early literacy reforms, Gov. Gavin Newsom included $200 million in last year’s state budget to pay for instructing elementary school teachers in the new ...

Immigrant parents worry their children will struggle with reading and fret that as non-English speakers, they can't help. A new study shows that's simply not true. Reading to a young child in any ...