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 ...

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.

But Chelsea students who entered 1st grade reading below grade level made 19 times the progress on DIBELS last year than Abeyta had seen previously, she said, so “there obviously is a financial ...

Many children missed out on kindergarten or experienced a more disrupted version. Now, 1st grade teachers will have to fill in the gaps.

Brooke Hughes, a first-grade teacher at Hanby Elementary School in Wilmington, Del., started the Foster Tales Puppy Therapy program that encourages students to read to foster puppies.

This is the first school year that Alabama’s third-graders’ spring reading test results will put a child on either a path to fourth grade or a path that will include intensive reading help ...

The reading subtest of the ACAP is the first way a third grader can meet requirements to move on to the fourth grade.

Sanders had been charged in connection with nine first grade male students. The jury heard from both students and parents with testimony that Sanders had put children in his lap and molested them.

Can we stop calling kindergarten the new first grade? We've been doing it for more than a dozen years.

Özek said many states have borrowed from Florida's third grade reading and retention model, which first launched the 2002-03 school year and takes a multifaceted approach to boosting literacy.

First-grade reading scores have improved and behavior problems have decreased, he said. Working with the dogs promotes good behavior because students can earn points to spend time with them.

There’s also a lot that parents can do at home to make sure that children are prepared for 1st grade. For example, children get a real boost from reading a book while snuggled on your lap. Young ...