After previous years of low literacy rates, San Joaquin County is actively making changes to improve student reading scores.

Phonemic awareness is one of those skill areas that shows up everywhere in early literacy discussions, but often with very little explanation about how it should be addressed inside an IEP. By the ...

Psycholinguists from the Center for Language and Brain found that phonological processing skills continue to influence text reading fluency in 15-to-18-year-old adolescents. This finding argues the ...

Older people who can easily list animals or different words beginning with the same letter are more likely to live longer. In a new analysis of the Berlin Aging Study an apparently simple task proves ...

The call for applications is now open for Foundations in Learning's Fall 2024 Fluency Innovator Grants program. Teachers and administrators from schools and districts serving grades 3-8 may apply to ...

As a middle school English language arts teacher for 15 years, I saw my share of struggling adolescent readers. I was often perplexed by how my students could have made it to sixth, seventh, or eighth ...

Abstract: Oral reading fluency assessment is a process where a student reads a passage aloud and is scored against words read correctly by a human listener. Current automatic reading fluency systems ...

I’m a guy who is typically pointed, concise, and purposeful with my words. I’m also not highly emotional, meaning I rarely veer from logic. Sounds kinda boring, right? Stay with me. There’s a big ...