As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Lynmara Colón, Ph.D., is director of student opportunity and multilingual learners in the Prince William County schools in Virginia: In the mosaic of American education, English learners add vibrant ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

English as a second language students can practice by reading books about their culture. For children who are learning English as their second language, it can be beneficial to read books that relate ...