To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Clarification: A previous version of this story had a different image. It has been updated for clarity. Walk into any kindergarten classroom this fall, and there’s a good chance students will be ...

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...