The State Board of Education approved Thursday new standards for English classes and reading and writing lessons. The new standards, which go into effect in the 2027-28 school year, expand reading and ...

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 ...

The report was not published by the Department of Education, so the panel published it privately. As a result, it is available only by purchase or in libraries and is lesser known than the report of ...

Almost 1 in 4 students are enrolled in a dual-language, Spanish-English program in the Southside schools in San Antonio. So when the district embraced the “science of reading,” it prioritized figuring ...

This online resources helps middle school students improve their literacy. The site provides games and 120 hours of supplemental resources. Teachers can access free digital lesson library online to ...

Immigrant parents worry their children will struggle with reading and fret that as non-English speakers, they can't help. A new study shows that's simply not true. Reading to a young child in any ...

Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were ...

Imagine a cross-country road trip using outdated maps. What are the chances you’ll take the best routes or even get to your destination? This is what’s happening in California classrooms. Teachers ...

Learn English from news headlines in Learning English from the News. Improve your listening skills with radio reports in The ...

Reading fiction is an emotional experience. Feeling emotions – even negative emotions such as sadness – drives reading and helps us enjoy books. Research from the National Literacy Trust, a UK charity ...

In a classroom in Namibia’s northern Oshikoto region, a teacher has written English vocabulary words on the chalkboard. She asks her learners to read them aloud. When they stumble with pronunciation, ...

Seven years later, children who start learning English in the first grade achieve poorer results in this subject than children whose first English lesson isn’t until the third grade. The researchers ...