The Be Your Own Hero Motivational Network brought in Ant-Man and local firefighters to help teach reading to first graders at Riverbank Elementary.

A new randomized control trial in Mississippi has found that a good kindergarten literacy program can boost disadvantaged students’ vocabulary in kindergarten by as much as an extra month of school.

Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

In this second of a two-part post, I collaborate with co-author Dr. Molly Ness of Fordham University to show how analysis of writing in children as young as kindergarten shows evidence of foundational ...

[Note: In this guest post, two renowned former kindergarten teachers who wrote about the extraordinary literacy successes of children in their classrooms (Feldgus & Cardonick, 1999) show how today’s ...