The early years are when the brain develops the most, forming neural connections that pave the way for how a child—and the eventual adult—will express feelings, embark on a task, and learn new skills ...

Three mornings a week for the past several months, a Northeast Portland second grader named Jaden has left his classroom for a 30-minute session focused on taking words apart and putting them back ...

More than 1 in 3 children in kindergarten through grade 3 have little chance of reading on grade level by the end of the school year without major and systemic interventions. That’s according to a new ...

Two important methods that have been widely used today for developing necessary reading skills are extensive reading and intensive reading. Here both the approaches have key roles in helping learners’ ...

Scientists have uncovered the first evidence that intensive instruction to improve reading skills in young children causes the brain to physically rewire itself, creating new white matter that ...

Intensive reading programs can produce measurable changes in the structure of a child's brain, according to a study in the journal Neuron. The study found that several different programs improved the ...

There were more fifth graders in Arlington Public Schools who needed intensive reading support at the end of the last school year than at the beginning, according to county data, a troubling trend ...