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Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ first year using an evidence-based curriculum to teach reading has been embraced by students and teachers despite a few shortcomings.
California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.
The Anoka-Hennepin School Board approved $4.5 million for a new literacy instruction plan for elementary students to reading ...
But as the science of reading movement has spread, researchers and advocates have taken aim at this method—and more generally, the idea of using “sight word” lists as an instructional tool.
Abby Frieden may originally be from Decorah, but her passion for teaching was cultivated in Marshalltown. During her time at ...
Kacey Hammer is stepping into her first official teaching role this fall as Stedman Elementary’s newest kindergarten teacher. Hammer is currently completing her Master’s degree in Elementary Education ...
That certainly describes my younger son, who just turned 3 and loves pretending to read picture books alongside his 6-year-old brother, who learned to read in kindergarten.
BERRIEN COUNTY, Mich. (WSBT) — Teachers in Berrien County were trained to help increase literacy in kindergarten through second grade two weeks before students return to school in Berrien County.
More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, according to a new study.
United by frustration about how public schools teach reading and their children’s struggles, parents are petitioning the province to pause its English curriculum rollout.
It’s huge for them to go to kindergarten already knowing the basics,” a teacher said of the Napa school district's expansion ...