Reading is the fundamental skill upon which so much else—both inside and outside the classroom—depends. Below is a selection of AFT resources to help support the goal of ensuring each and every child ...

Teachers at all levels of education rely on written curricula and codified best practices to guide their instruction. Without a curriculum, it can be hard to keep track of everything students need to ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...

As students are expected to read more challenging texts, the academic language they contain can be daunting. But a certain type of vocabulary instruction could help students break tricky words down ...