In previous years, teacher Lovina Shahid had difficulty helping her first graders learn vowel sounds. So, she read up on evidence-based reading programs, hoping to help the students, many of whom ...

Brooke Tepper, a special education resource teacher at Columbus School in Carteret, N.J., works on reading fluency with first graders, giving them parts to read aloud in a short play. Credit: Caralee ...

When I was little, my mom read to me all the time. Because of her, I developed a lifelong love of books and started reading when I was quite young, jumping ahead of some of my peers. But this was a ...