Reading together has many benefits, but one of the most overlooked is the correlation between reading and academic writing.

Which kids’ reading and writing materials are the best. Literacy goes far beyond the ability to read and write. Literacy arms ...

Allycia Uhrhan’s 6th graders at Truman Middle School in St. Louis started their field-science week collecting data on fish hatching at nearby Forest Park. But the trip really started the prior week, ...

Learning how to write well can make students better readers. Study after study has shown that when children are taught how to write complex sentences and compose different kinds of texts, their ...

There’s a profound cost to our postliterate age.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. The evidence is mounting that an elementary literacy curriculum called ...

It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assigned. For many students, the leap from understanding a concept to putting it on paper feels like an impossible ...

Teachers College professor Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study For Teaching Reading curriculum was once used in hundreds of New York City public schools and thousands of elementary schools nationwide. A ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.