As states and districts overhaul the way their schools teach reading, many are banking on one specific professional-learning program to propel this transformation: Language Essentials for Teachers of ...

Waterford ― With her teacher holding the microphone, kindergartener Gloria DesJardin gently corrected her pupil: the superintendent of the Waterford School District. The sound the letters "ck" make, ...

One such opportunity is the LETRS Program, which helps teachers better understand the science of reading for early childhood and elementary learners. LETRS is an acronym for Language Essentials for ...

It took less than two minutes for Journee Freeman and Stevie Stinebaugh to prove they had lost little, if any, of the great reading strides they had made in kindergarten last year. The two Berryton ...

This article first appeared in the Solutions newsletter. Click here to learn more about the newsletter and sign up. The Ferguson-Florissant School District had a literacy problem—that much was clear ...

Wake County elementary school teachers will get bonuses and stipends for attending state-required training on a new program for teaching literacy to students. The Wake County school board approved ...

Kindergarten teacher Toni Cuello explains LETRS, Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling, teaching technique she uses with her Desert Sky Elementary students at the West Richland ...

“I love reading. Reading is really the reason I became a teacher,” Walker said. “But … I learned how to read fairly quickly and easily and I never understood how to teach it to kids, and I felt really ...

A CMS teacher leads a reading lesson before the pandemic in 2020. North Carolina’s latest effort to help young children read is demanding huge chunks of time from teachers who are already frazzled.