Teaching students to read has always been a challenge, but educators say teaching the skill remotely presents additional obstacles. Matt Cooper Borkenhagen, a language researcher and graduate student in psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says reading is an "intrinsically complex" skill, cautioning that even the best strategies often rely on in-person learning,…

So how are schools preparing young people to navigate this brave new world where they spend most of their time, make many of their friends, and are exposed to an avalanche of new information? writes Diana Graber, Cyberwise.org and CyberCivics.com.

Linköpings universitet var det lärosäte som fick störst utdelning vid Vetenskapsrådets årliga utlysning inom utbildningsvetenskap. Forskningsprojekten rör allt från läsning och fysisk kontakt i förskolan till lässvårigheter och visualisering inom naturvetenskap.

Students can get turned off to reading because of traumatic experiences, like shaming one's reading choices or high-stakes testing. Teacher-librarians offer advice on how to cultivate better reading experiences for kids.

Lärarna i svenska på Baldergymnasiet i Skellefteå såg att läsandet av böcker och tidningar minskade bland deras elever. De upplevde också att eleverna fick allt sämre självförtroende kring läsning. Då kontaktade de forskare för att se om undervisningen gick att ändra.

Elever på Baldergymnasiet i Skellefteå ska använda berättandet från dataspel och tv-serier på svenskalektionerna. På skolan pågar ett forskningsprojekt tillsammans med Luleå tekniska universitet, där alla typer av deras läsande kartläggs för att förändra undervisningen i svenska.

Are your students’ annotated texts hard to make sense of? Do they underline entire sections of a source? And write very few comments? This kind of annotating can be a waste of time and a huge impediment to meaningful learning for some of our learners. How can we turn this around?

Using the popular game in station rotation activities during distance learning is a way to bring an element of play and collaboration to writing assignments.

By using culturally inclusive texts to spark conversation, teachers can help young learners get the most out of these books.

Sverige befinner sig mitt i en skrivkris. För att få bukt med det språkliga förfallet har den populära språkkriminologen Sara Lövestam skrivit ”Handbok för språkpoliser”. Men tro inte att hon dras med i kårens domedagstankar.

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project has released an approach to teaching reading. Under the approach - which calls for "rebalancing" literacy - greater emphasis is placed on teaching children to recognize spoken words before recognizing written words.

There are several available resources to help develop students' news literacy skills, writes Kimberly Rues, a prekindergarten-to-sixth-grade librarian in Missouri. In this commentary, Rues discusses the News Literacy Project and Stanford History Education Group Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum, which can help students think critically about the news they consume online.