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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phonics and phonemic awareness instruction is important for the challenges of helping all children reach grade level expectations in reading. However, rather than continuing to highlight the reading ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

PITTSFIELD — In Elaine Hunter's first-grade classroom, students are tackling big words and big concepts, from "differentiation" to "decomposition," without hesitation. The teacher, who is new to the ...