A lifelong educator and advocate for children, Principal Diane Daprocida of P.S. 94, an elementary school in the Bronx, says she has been waiting for one thing since she started running the school 10 ...

Imagine yourself curled up in your favorite chair by the fireplace, a mug of cocoa spiked with Bailey’s within reach. Open the book you’ve been waiting all day to read, a tale of adventure and ...

Becoming a confident reader is a process that has a lot more to it than acquiring knowledge of letters and sounds. Fundamentally, a sense of ownership, interest ...

Alex Quigley is an English teacher and Director of Huntington Research School, York, England. He blogs at www.theconfidentteacher.com and he is the author of ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’, published by ...

READING TIPS• Each day, students should have the opportunity to read books they select themselves. Teach them how to choose books they can and want to read, books that will capture their interest and ...

Teaching younger children through 'guided' play can support key aspects of their learning and development at least as well, and sometimes better, than traditional, direct instruction, according to a ...