While Hackman, the chemistry teacher, spends a lot of class time reading articles, Maggie Fallon, a math teacher, said she primarily supports literacy by teaching students new vocabulary.

Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers played audio of the books during class. Much of the reading material at Garden City Middle School in ...

Researchers have long observed that a small—and declining—number of students actually complete their assigned readings; a study of reading quizzes taken in a psychology class between 1981 and 1997 ...

Ledina also extends reading outside the walls of the library with in-class collaborations. “Recently, I assisted our consumer science teacher and students with research reports to make sure they ...

This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times But Hackman also has another responsibility in class: developing students’ reading skills. For about 20 of the 80 minutes of almost every class, she ...