A middle-school teacher in Riverside County, Calif., had students generate keywords from a section of a book, use them to ...

If the take-home reading packet is still in the backpack in a hall closet right about now, there’s no time to waste.

This year's third graders are the third class of students in Tennessee who have been held to the reading retention law. In 2023, a statewide law focused on third-grade reading rates took effect.

What began as a casual meetup is now a monthly series with a loyal crowd and a no-frills, all-heart approach to writing.