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.

A new nationwide study has found that children entering first grade in 2013 had significantly better reading skills than similar students had just 12 years earlier. Researchers say this means that ...

Research has borne out that it’s harder for students to succeed if they’re not proficient by 3rd grade. One landmark study found that students who couldn’t read on grade level by then were ...

Thursday, the Mississippi Department of Education released the results from the first round of this year's third-grade reading assessment.Students took that test last month. On the first try, 75.7% ...

There are two big problems with existing test-driven accountability schemes in reading. First, the high-stakes reading tests our kids take in elementary and middle school really don’t test what ...

There is a newly published study out of the University of Virginia titled, “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?” (based on a 2014 working paper), which finds, not surprisingly, that it is ...

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 ...

To find out what your first-grader will be learning in math class, check out our first grade math skills page.. Parent Toolkit resources were developed by NBC News Learn with the help of subject ...

Learn more about how to support your child with our first-grade self-management tips page.. Parent Toolkit resources were developed by NBC News Learn with the help of subject-matter experts ...

In kindergarten, matching some spoken and written words, reading simple words in isolation and recognizing some familiar words in print. In first or second grade, sounding out or decoding ...