Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

If old-fashioned books are too boring for you, ebook distributor OverDrive wants to gamify them with interactive elements and video game-inspired achievements and badges for kids who finish their ...

Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) announces the ReadOhio program at a school in Columbus. Some Ohioans might remember learning to read by "sounding out" letters, as phonics used to be widely taught in schools ...

“Diverse Elements,” an exhibition currently running at Studio B through Dec. 2, brings together the work of two painters and two sculptors in congenial dichotomies of medium and subject matter. The ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- There's no "LOL" -- computer message-speak for "laughing out loud" -- in this book. "U" is a letter, not a pronoun. In St. Joseph's public high schools, instructors aren't "JK" -- ...

Move over “Dick and Jane.” A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

Students will learn about the different elements of a drama. In this lesson, students will learn about the different elements of a drama and discuss how dramas compare to other types of text. / Julia ...

In Irish writer Nuala O’Faolain’s memoir “Are You Somebody” she recounts being asked to list the 10 more important events of her life (she was participating in a self-exploration workshop) and the ...

Less style guide than extended meditation on the sentence as written communication’s basic building block, this is a heartfelt but sometimes overwrought affair. Moran, an English and Cultural History ...

PARALLEL construction is one of the most powerful tools for organizing and presenting ideas in writing. Indeed, it cannot be overemphasized that making sentences grammatically and semantically correct ...