Wake County teachers have a “captive classroom audience” of students so new rules could go into effect soon on how they pick what materials are read aloud in class. The Wake County school board has ...

An unvaccinated, unmasked California elementary school teacher who came to school in May even while visibly sick infected a dozen students with the coronavirus, all too young to be immunized, ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report this week after investigating an outbreak of the delta variant of COVID-19 at an elementary school in California, saying an ...

Interactive read-alouds are a mainstay in traditional literacy classrooms because they support wide-ranging goals in reading development. As educators make the transition to virtual classrooms, it is ...

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The first image many people have of school is a circle of small children, sitting cross-legged, paying attention (or not) to an adult reading a book aloud and showing pictures to the class. Indeed, ...

With the help of the read-alouds in class and continued fluency skill-building, Julie now has a favorite author: Lurlene McDaniel. Like the heroines in the novels that overcome serious illness, she is ...