Connecting writing with media literacy. We routinely connect writing with reading, but how often do you connect writing with media literacy? Children are both consumers and creators of media. Writing ...
Literacy Coalition of Onondaga County encourages nonprofits serving county residents to seek up to $10,000 in funding.
In 2014, the California State Board of Education adopted the evidence-based and standards-driven English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework (ELA/ELD Framework) — nonbinding guidance ...
There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...
The auditorium packed with Bessemer City third graders buzzed as little hands shot into the air, excited to ask 15-year-old best-selling author, Nia Mya Reese, about how she started reading and ...
Just as a gardener plants seeds and nurtures them into strong, flourishing plants, early childhood educators have the opportunity to nurture the earliest seeds of literacy in young children. When ...
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, ...
Improving literacy instruction is once again in fashion among America’s policy circles. Between 2019 and 2022, state legislatures passed more than 200 bills that sought to push and pull public schools ...
Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...
PEABODY, Mass. (WWLP)– The state has awarded literacy grants to 15 school districts across the state, including two in western Massachusetts. The money is part of the state’s plan to invest in ...
Despite decades of policy effort, literacy remains one of the most persistent challenges facing Australian secondary schools.