Reading

In case your social media timeline hasn’t already been flooded by what your friends have been listening to all year, Spotify Wrapped is an annual campaign by the music streaming platform whereby each individual gets a personalised report…

Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That's because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic information, in their first months.…

“I wouldn’t call the results super large. I would call them cost effective,” said Jennifer Jennings, a sociologist at Princeton University who was not involved in the study, but attended a presentation of the research in November. A…

Classroom Teaching Materials by TeachThought Curricula: Setting The Purpose Of Reading by Jenessa McCulloch Description Setting the purpose for reading is crucial as it provides focus and direction, guiding readers to engage…

Reading ability among U.S. students remained low in 2022, with 37% of fourth graders and 30% of eighth graders scoring below the basic proficiency levels for reading set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Although…

Teaching children to read unlocks the world of learning for them, and it can be one of the most rewarding parts of teaching. But how exactly do students learn to read, and what can educators do to support…

A school district in Texas has fired a teacher who assigned eighth-grade students a graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary.The Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District’s communication coordinator, Mike Canizales, told KFDM-TV in…

Israel’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.5% in August. In the twelve months to the end of August, the index rose by 4.1%. The figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics came as an unpleasant surprise, as…

Alternative network provider Brsk has announced another milestone in its mission to bring better broadband to underserved areas of the UK by securing an additional £156m debt investment, while leading provider CityFibre has revealed…

Cahill explains that children see themselves in book characters, which helps make the message feel real. “After reading to them, I would ask, ‘How would you feel? What would you have done differently?’” says Cahill.“They feel safe when…