At left, Tony Buttino prepares Western New York book reviewers (from left to right: Stephanie, Percy and Afrika) with production assistant Pam Johnson at right. Courtesy of WNED PBS, Buffalo, NY For ...

What barriers do students face when asked to read text and show their comprehension of it? This question was posed by an English/language arts teacher and educational consultant to a group of ...

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

While the world celebrated International Literacy Day, South Africa faced a harsh reality: 81% of Grade 4 learners reportedly can decode words but cannot read for meaning, according to PIRLS 2021.