Early Reader Books for 1st Grade Summer Reading. This list of easy readers is 1st-grade books with only a few words per page, perfect for kids who are entering first grade and just beginning to read.

40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc. First grade in particular — “the ...

The nearly three-decade-old Reading Recovery program provides intensive, individual instruction by trained teachers for 30 minutes each day to children reading at the lowest 20 percent of their grade.