Digital platforms can help make reading aloud independently more engaging and get kids excited about literacy practice.

Just a few years ago, a set of tests known as “dibbles” would have elicited little more than a chuckle from educators or anyone else. Today, they’re taking it seriously, because the acronym DIBELS has ...

Non-profit NWEA is launching a new oral reading fluency assessment for K-3 that uses speech recognition, automatic scoring and computer adaptive technology rather than human judgment and individual ...

Naperville, IL, and Houston County, GA, educators share their insights on how this early literacy assessment tool is pivotal in driving better student outcomes. PORTLAND, Ore., March 21, 2024 ...

Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2006), pp. 185-196 (12 pages) Students with disabilities often have difficulties acquiring basic reading skills. The purpose ...

Reading fluency is the ability to read with proper speed, accuracy, and expression. Children, and people in general, must be able to read fluently in order to understand what they’re reading. This ...

First grade teacher Rita McCord instructs students in reading at Hiawatha Elementary School in Hiawatha on Feb. 1. The Cedar Rapids Community School District began training special education teachers ...

Spring testing data show that less than half of Tulsa Public Schools’ early elementary students have foundational reading skills at their grade levels. At Monday night’s school board meeting, board ...