A collection of teaching resources for primary and secondary pupils, perfect for inspiring your class with the joy of reading for World Book Day and National Storytelling Week.

All aboard for a Live Lesson on World Book Day 2026, hosted by Vick Hope and Joel M Join us during British Science Week for a Horrible Science inspired lesson. Help us make a movie starring the Moon ...

You can listen to the latest bestseller while commuting or cleaning up the house. But is listening to a book really the same ...

More than 7,000 children and teachers gather for a literacy class in a football stadium.

School closures as a result of COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to the worsening of learning poverty and the learning crisis. At the core of the learning crisis, there is an instructional crisis.

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

Direct instruction is the reading equivalent of school uniforms, and it makes literature as exciting as a pressed white shirt. One scene in Michael Moore’s documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11" keeps playing ...

A third-grader works through a phonics lesson in Washington, Ill. A third-grader works through a phonics lesson in Washington, Ill.Matt Dayhoff—USA TODAY Network/Reuters Editor at Large As a teacher ...

There’s a settled body of research on how best to teach early reading. But when it comes to the multitude of curriculum choices that schools have, it’s often hard to parse whether well-marketed ...

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...