A popular diagram for teaching plot structure to middle and high school students looks like a mountain, mapping out exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It’s an apt ...

Reading is among the earliest skills children learn in school, and for good reason. Research indicates that reading is a critical aspect of learning and supporting cognitive health throughout life.

Novels are a large part of FVHS’s English classes, yet in world language classes, books play a very small part of the curriculum, and the classes focus on more short stories or texts. So why are there ...

Multilingual elementary and junior high students throughout Santa Barbara County competed in a battle of literary wit at the ...

To prepare the next generation for success, we must prioritize early literacy. It starts simply with a book and time together ...

Flat lay from many books. Knowledge. Education. Student. Schoolboy. I research and write about happiness, so every year before Jan. 1, I ask people, “What resolutions will you make this year?” With ...

A few months into my first year of teaching middle-school English in Santa Fe, I realized that a handful of my students were not reading books. I had carefully structured the class time so there would ...