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

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 ...

As new technologies rapidly expand, experts say learners and educators alike need to focus on literacy all the more.

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 ...

American students are failing to meet certain expectations on their reading skills due to school interruptions caused by the pandemic. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, kindergartners missed most of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his mustard-yellow polo shirt buttoned to the top. “Give us some vowels,” says his teacher, La’Neeka Gilbert-Jackson. His ...