Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...
In early literacy, the goal is simple but urgent: Help students become independent readers and writers. Every instructional decision we make either moves them closer to that goal or keeps them ...
SHICKSHINNY — Northwest Area first graders experienced the magic of reading during Friday’s Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program. RIF, a nonprofit that aims to connect children with the joy of reading ...
Last September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers catch up before state reading tests at the end of 3rd grade. By winter, ...
Frederick Elementary's incoming 3rd graders practice 15 literacy skills in small groups for 45 minutes each day. By spring, ...
This fall, about 50,000 Wisconsin public school kids will start first grade. They'll file through hundred-year-old hallways and new builds, meeting teachers just out of college or 40-year veteran ...