At lunch, they ate only with other first-graders, one grade level at a time, two students per table, all facing the same direction. Lunch would stretch from 10:40 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., doing it that ...

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.

As test scores lag, there’s a growing debate between proponents of the “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, and traditional educators who prefer to instill a love of literature.

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 is a ...

A first-grade classroom at P.S. 249 in Brooklyn, a high-performing, high-poverty school that uses Professor Calkins’s reading, writing and phonics programs. Credit... Thalia Juarez for The New ...

Jessica Reid Sliwerski, right, founder of reading tutoring and curriculum non-profits, helps teacher Sabrina Causey with her first-grade class at Markham Elementary School in East Oakland. “The ...

The magic of a kindergarten or 1st grade classroom comes in literally watching children grow as readers. Diverse learners walk in with varied amounts of background knowledge and knowledge of the ...

“And the class sizes are too big, and I left the public school system.” Right now, almost half of public schools aren’t reading at grade level. Only 54 percent of Palm Beach County third ...

How to Watch Colorado Classroom: Read with Me at Home - First Grade. Colorado Classroom: Read with Me at Home - First Grade is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...

Yes, but proponents of phonics sometimes overstate how much more effective it is to teach kids the sounds that letters make. “Phonics is marginally better,” said Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus ...

Wordle, the viral online guess-the-word game, has become a social media phenomenon and a source of fierce competition among its devotees. But in some classrooms, it’s also a teaching tool.

HOOKED ON PHONICS IXL, a K-12 learning platform that serves more than 6 million students worldwide, is expanding its phonics offerings for Pre-K to first graders.The new phonics content is aimed at ...