AULANDER, N.C. (WNCT) — North Carolina teachers are getting a new type of training. It’s called LETRS. It stands for the language essentials for teachers of reading and spelling. Two years ago, the ...

“I love reading. Reading is really the reason I became a teacher,” Walker said. “But … I learned how to read fairly quickly and easily and I never understood how to teach it to kids, and I felt really ...

This article first appeared in the Solutions newsletter. Click here to learn more about the newsletter and sign up. The Ferguson-Florissant School District had a literacy problem—that much was clear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in EdNC. North Carolina is one of several states that have passed legislation in recent ...

BOSTON – Lexia, a Cambium Learning Group brand, has selected the 118 winners of its inaugural Lexia LETRS Science of Reading Grant Contest. Winners comprise K-5 educators in 26 states. Each will ...

DALLAS, Sept. 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Voyager Sopris Learning reported today a significant increase in the number of schools, districts, and states using LETRS, the company’s landmark ...

A company that produces curriculum and assessment programs and professional development has launched two new PD products focused on literacy in K-12. Voyager Sopris Learning recently introduced ...

It took less than two minutes for Journee Freeman and Stevie Stinebaugh to prove they had lost little, if any, of the great reading strides they had made in kindergarten last year. The two Berryton ...

After 13 years of teaching, Hillsboro kindergarten teacher Kandi Hess did not know the rule that determines when the letter g makes the hard “guh” sound versus the soft “juh,” until she started a year ...

A CMS teacher leads a reading lesson before the pandemic in 2020. North Carolina’s latest effort to help young children read is demanding huge chunks of time from teachers who are already frazzled.