Humans are hard-wired to appreciate stories, and there is a huge diversity of stories geared toward upper elementary and middle school students. However, interest in reading and learning often ...

A recent report from NWEA found that middle schoolers are showing a noticeable decline in reading abilities. The findings surmise that this is in part due to lack of in-person instruction during the ...

Ecker Hill Middle School students are spending advisory time this winter reading together as part of the school’s annual One Book One ...

Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers ...

Between kindergarten and second grade, much of the school day is dedicated to helping our youngest students master phonics, syllabication, and letter-sound correspondence–the essential building blocks ...

Last Wednesday, 11-year-old Geniya sat in a corner of the library at Ockley Green Middle School in North Portland, where she’ll be a sixth grader this fall, intently concentrating on spelling the word ...

Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town outside Concord, N.H. In the world of literacy education, that is not an ...

Leavens said his father, who died in 2019, influenced his commitment to educational investment.