This year, Duolingo – a famous language learning app – launched the ‘Duolingo ABC’ app to help children (3-8 years) to learn reading and writing in English. The free app has been developed by learning ...

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Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

The 74 reports a decline in parents reading to children, linked to past negative experiences and digital distractions, widening literacy gaps.

That was the response from a handful of K-12 teachers—1st grade classroom teachers, high school math teachers, and those in between—to this question posed by Education Week in a recent (unscientific) ...

Kindergarten teacher Naomi Simpson works with students on breaking down words into sounds during a reading intervention time at Vitovsky Elementary on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, in Midlothian, Texas. For ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

Child Development, Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL SECTION: Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interaction (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016), pp. 184-193 (10 pages) Variability ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Cathie Wallace is ...

Gabrielle acknowledges funding for the research study from the Economic and Social Research Council (grant ES/T007583/1) and Allan and Gill Gray South Africa Philanthropy. The findings and conclusions ...