Rethinking reading: All schools are required to adopt ‘structured literacy.’ Here’s what teachers already using it say

No one was a greater skeptic than Martin Elementary kindergarten teacher Alissa Szewczak when New Kensington-Arnold administrators announced the district would switch reading curriculums. Two years ...
The Hechinger Report

NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading

First grade teacher Emily VanDerhoff, who is also a member of the Fairfax County NAACP’s education committee, was incorporating phonics into her lessons before Fairfax County renewed its focus on how ...
The New York Times

In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...

The curator: 10 kids summer learning kits to boost reading skills at home

These picks from Lumos Learning, Wonder House Books, Joycat and more offer a balance of education and play to keep young ...