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 ...

Northwest Area first graders experienced the magic of reading during Friday’s Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program.

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 ...

For many adults, reading is a fact of life often taken for granted. For them, there’s usually a great distance between learning to read and being a reader, but for young students, reading ...

Key points All first graders should show development in two critical phases, Phases 3 and Phase 4, leading to automatic word reading and spelling. In Phases 3 and 4 writing samples, you see evidence ...

This article is part three of a three-part series about teaching computer science in the public schools of Massachusetts. Parts one and two are also available online. While about 20 first-graders sat ...

Kindergartners who got a literacy curriculum grounded in science topics had better reading comprehension than peers who got the standard approach focusing on general comprehension skills, according to ...