The success of virtual tutoring program being used in Westfield's elementary schools to help first graders learn to read has ...
“Strengthening first grade reading outcomes could help reduce the number of students who need extra support in second and ...
Learning to listen in first grade helps develop cognitive skills. Source: iStock/FatCamera Tens of millions of children around the United States are going back to school. For those starting first ...
The education system has changed, but that doesn't necessarily mean we've made progress. In 1979, first graders were expected to achieve a series of old-school milestones in areas that went beyond ...
Many first-graders are in a classroom for the first time and don't understand the routines. The result is often chaotic, but also normal for children this age, says a professor of early childhood ...
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 ...
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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, ...
Michael Winerip of the New York Times has assembled 25 things about first-graders in this piece, which notes that “among the many horrors associated with the killing of 20 children at Sandy Hook ...