“In schools today students are learning to read until third grade,” she said. “That’s the foundation and it’s so important.
Thirty-six percent of third-graders at Lima schools earned proficient reading scores on their state English language arts ...
Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ first year using an evidence-based curriculum to teach reading has been embraced by students and teachers despite a few shortcomings, which include the rigid ...
To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...
Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...
Too many boys think reading for fun isn’t “cool.” This isn’t breaking news. Global studies from the mid-2000s found boys are less likely to read for pleasure than girls, a trend that continues today.
Spencer Russell is a dad of two and is now the head of literacy strategy at Lovevery. He shares the importance of learning to read early.
More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...