Other school or extracurricular work you do: I am the co-chair of the English Department representing grades Early School through grade six (my partner represents seven through 12). I am also a mentor ...

Keep your soon-to-be or leaving 1st (first) graders, ages 6 and 7, practicing their growing reading skills with the best 1st grade books for summer reading. I’ve curated a list of 1st grade books for ...

This randomized control trial examined the efficacy of a multitiered supplemental tutoring program within a first-grade responsiveness-to-intervention prevention model. Struggling first-grade readers ...

Marie Clay, a New Zealand psychologist whose efforts to identify and help struggling readers before they finished first grade profoundly influenced educators in the United States and other countries, ...

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 ...

First graders nowadays are better readers than they were more than a decade ago, evidence, researchers said, kids are learning in kindergarten what they used to in first grade. That's according to a ...