At Jefferson Elementary, first graders aren't just learning to read — they're learning how reading actually works.

In a highly entertaining TikTok post, a teacher and mother shares three key mistakes parents need to change immediately.

When it comes to the Spring 2026 Vocabulary Bowl, it's pouring. More than 1.2 million learners across 122 countries just mastered a record-breaking 5.34 million words—topping last season by 16,000.

What are we missing?” A nationwide gap in phonics instruction galvanized the science of reading movement. But as the movement ...

This strategy helps upper elementary students decipher nonfiction by identifying key structures and vocabulary in the text.

Exclusive: Countdown lexicographer urges families to read, talk and play word games to help language development Susie Dent’s tips and tricks to add muscle to a child’s vocabulary Children’s ...

To help combat the impact of screen-time creep, the Countdown word supremo has a few suggestions Children’s vocabulary shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, says Susie Dent Children’s ...

In today’s blog post I am sharing with you this handy collection of best vocabulary apps for students that I carefully curated based on my long standing experience as both language teacher and EdTech ...

K5 worksheets are the topic of our blog post today! I am introducing you to a good platform where you can access a wide variety of K5 worksheets: K5 Learning. This is a platform that offers free ...

Crossplay challenges you to expand your word choices. So how exactly do you do that? By Julia Carpenter Almost every day for the last 24 years, my father and I have traded emails about ...

Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair. Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...