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 ...

Education experts have a solid answer. If kindergarten is about transitioning away from the play-based learning of preschool, then first grade is about stepping fully into the world of academics. “The ...

“I love reading. Reading is really the reason I became a teacher,” Walker said. “But … I learned how to read fairly quickly and easily and I never understood how to teach it to kids, and I felt really ...

Inside a classroom in St. Charles Parish, a group of first graders sit around their teacher as she points to an easel with a large piece of paper titled “READING.” Under it, six steps lay out how to ...

First grade teacher Emily VanDerhoff, who is also a member of the Fairfax County NAACP’s education committee, was incorporating phonics into her lessons before Fairfax County renewed its focus on how ...

Above: Nystrom Elementary teacher Dylan Fairweather teaches a reading lesson to a third grade class. The school has used the science of reading approach since receiving grant funding in 2021. More ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Tuesday that is part of an effort to raise reading scores for young readers in Iowa and to align reading instruction in K-12 schools with the methods ...