To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

An oft-cited phrase is that students “learn to read, then read to learn.” It’s time to put that phrase to bed. Students do need to learn the fundamentals of reading in the early grades, including ...