A few months into my first year of teaching middle-school English in Santa Fe, I realized that a handful of my students were not reading books. I had carefully structured the class time so there would ...

Humanities professors at one of California’s most prestigious universities say they are assigning fewer pages, replacing full ...

Last week, an English teacher sent me her school’s language arts curriculum, which is designed by the Savvas Learning Company. It includes a number of great essays, poems, and authors — The Most ...

A popular diagram for teaching plot structure to middle and high school students looks like a mountain, mapping out exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It’s an apt ...

Students will see more of their own stories reflected on school bookshelves as Prince Edward Island’s novel selection ...

Read Alliance, a 26-year-old program, empowers high school teens to provide one-on-one reading tutoring to early elementary ...

At a time when rates of reading for pleasure are down nationwide and policymakers are beginning to brainstorm ways to help ...

For many of us, the best part of school was simple: sitting cross-legged on the carpet while the teacher read aloud, listening to the story unfold. That love of reading often followed primary grade ...