Wake County elementary school teachers will get bonuses and stipends for attending state-required training on a new program for teaching literacy to students. The Wake County school board approved ...

This article first appeared in the Solutions newsletter. Click here to learn more about the newsletter and sign up. The Ferguson-Florissant School District had a literacy problem—that much was clear ...

The Abilene School District remains committed to the Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling literacy program, despite funding uncertainties at the state level. LETRS, a professional ...

It took less than two minutes for Journee Freeman and Stevie Stinebaugh to prove they had lost little, if any, of the great reading strides they had made in kindergarten last year. The two Berryton ...

A company that produces curriculum and assessment programs and professional development has launched two new PD products focused on literacy in K-12. Voyager Sopris Learning recently introduced ...

As states and districts overhaul the way their schools teach reading, many are banking on one specific professional-learning program to propel this transformation: Language Essentials for Teachers of ...

Alfred E. Beach High School’s Richard R. Mole auditorium buzzed to life early Friday, Oct. 6. The event was part of Savannah-Chatham County Public School System’s (SCCPSS) Literacy Kickoff. Thing 1 ...

After 13 years of teaching, Hillsboro kindergarten teacher Kandi Hess did not know the rule that determines when the letter g makes the hard “guh” sound versus the soft “juh,” until she started a year ...

“I love reading. Reading is really the reason I became a teacher,” Walker said. “But … I learned how to read fairly quickly and easily and I never understood how to teach it to kids, and I felt really ...

The chant came from Carrie Johnson’s kindergarten classroom as she sounded out the day’s lesson on the letter “J.” Moments earlier, she’d sent students on a “J” treasure hunt, asking them to find the ...