Winner: Xin Li, I Lived Inside a Whale (Little, Brown Ink) A stirring and visually captivating story of transformation and discovery that invites young readers to explore feelings of belonging and ...

Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher, San Diego State University | Diane Lapp and James Flood Professional Collaborator Award ...

International Literacy Day, held annually on September 8, marks a global moment to recognize literacy as a fundamental human right and a cornerstone of equity, opportunity, and social justice. This ...

In this essay I will tell you the real story of Snow White; or rather, the real stories —for the Brothers Grimm published more than one version of the tale. Those versions are, as you might guess, ...

In many classrooms we visit, “sight words” receive a very different kind of instruction than other words, taught primarily as an exercise in visual memorization. In this post, we explain why sight ...

What we found was that the teachers we surveyed believed Round Robin Reading procedures help them accomplish a number of goals. Their reasons ranged from fostering their students’ decoding and fluency ...

Weakland writes that the concern around books as harmful or radically biased against the elitist status quo doesn't justify the censorship that tends to silence the already marginalized voices.

Research presented by the National Center for Education Statistics has proven that family engagement is one of the most important factors of literacy development, and that children enter kindergarten ...

The idea of reading for pleasure is often lost among the various assigned readings and increased emphasis on test preparation. However, strong readers are those who can read and analyze a diverse ...

Digital citizenship skills are an important part of today’s teaching and learning culture. Our students are growing up in a fast-paced, technologically advanced world, where the integration of digital ...