The Hechinger Report

‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
Education Week

Where Have All The Reading Groups Gone?

My daughter's 1st grade was not the one I remembered. My question is this: Where have all the reading groups gone? First grade is a time of learning and growth in children, the foundation for the ...
Psychology Today

What Your First Grader’s Writing Shows About Reading

In this second of a two-part post, I collaborate with co-author Dr. Molly Ness of Fordham University to show how analysis of writing in children as young as kindergarten shows evidence of foundational ...
Psychology Today

K-1 Literacy Milestones Based on 5 Science-Based Facts

Do you know if your kindergartner or first grader is developing as expected as a reader, writer, and speller? You may want to check these K-1 literacy milestones. Here are a few key facts. 1. Learning ...
EdSurge

Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It’s nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. She’s also one of the people having the most fun. Parsing education data ...