In response, many schools are rethinking how they teach kids to read. In one New York City first grade classroom, Melissa Vega-Jones goes letter by letter, teaching the specific rules that form ...

Teachers and students usually spend the first month of school getting to know each other. Imagine if we could all hit the ...

The children's faces lit up as she placed a carefully addressed envelope on each desk. ... This Teacher's Creative Pug Letter Project Is Helping Kids Learn. Story by Diane Nichols • 2mo.

Nearly 70% of the nation’s fourth-graders cannot read properly. Lumeez/peopleimages.com – stock.adobe.com. The inability of America’s children to read proficiently is frightening.

I just finished my 66th, and last, semester of teaching high school English. A few years ago, as part of being a mentor to a new teacher, I wrote a letter to my first-year teaching self, then gave ...