When I use wordless picture books in my classroom, I am able to push my students even further, because they are doing all the textual work. I love the freedom and the range of interpretation that these books give my kids, writes teacher Megan Kelly.

What Kids Are Reading is the world’s largest annual study of K–12 student reading habits. The all-new 2021 edition provides insight on reading trends during the pandemic, diverse titles that support social-emotional learning, and much more.

Attentive coaching and carefully crafted assessments guide high school students toward literacy skills that last a lifetime.

Ett team av designers, forskare och branschpartners har arbetat tillsammans för att utveckla ny personaliserad teknik som ska stödja grundskolebarn att bli självsäkra och skickliga när de läser engelska. Bland annat har ett spel som anpassar sig efter elevens nivå utvecklats.

Läs- och skrivundervisningen bedrivs enligt beprövade metoder och på ett likartat sätt i landets olika skolor. IFAU kartlägger i en ny rapport den språk-, läs- och skrivutvecklande undervisningen i svenska och SO-ämnena i grundskolan 2015–2018.

I denna rapport beskrivs metoder inom språk-, läs- och skrivundervisning i den svenska grundskolan med hjälp av en enkät ställd till lärare i svenska och SOämnena åren 2015–2018. Enkätsvaren visar att lärare använder sig av många olika undervisningssätt för att främja elevers läs- och skrivutveckling. (pdf)

An online writing group—which could be adapted for in person learning—builds confidence in students’ ability to express their ideas.

Sentence starters can help students who are unsure how to begin an argument writing assignment, Michigan middle-school English teacher Jeremy Hyler writes in this blog. Hyler offers examples and explains how this scaffolding can help ease the writing process for students who have trouble getting started.  

An emphasis on phonics may fail to adequately support English-language learners, according to a group of advocates and researchers in Colorado. While the state has issued a directive to focus on phonics, the group encourages teachers to continue a multipronged approach to early-grade reading with pictures and other tools to help reach the 13% of…

Design thinking can help encourage students to read on their own, writes Katie Durkin, a middle-school English-language arts teacher. In this article, Durkin shares how the process works, including modeling reading goals and helping students to set and achieve personal goals.

Preparing kids to be critical thinkers and problem solvers requires teaching a mix of foundational skills and higher-level abstract skills.

Though people often ponder the real-world utility of math concepts, educator Carol Buckley points to filling gas tanks, preparing food and checking the weather as ways math serves people daily. Buckley highlights the many parallels in the way students learn math and reading to illustrate that the supposedly distinct subjects actually are complementary to everyday…