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 ...

“If parents do only one thing routinely to get their children ready for 1st grade, reading every day, a variety of books, would be it,” said Seena Hawley, executive director of the Berkeley Baby Book ...

Invented spelling in kindergarten as a predictor of reading and spelling in grade 1: A new Pathway to literacy, or just the same road, less known? Developmental Psychology . 53 (1) 77– 88. http ...

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 ...

Elizabeth (Betsy) A. Baker, Apps, iPads, and Literacy: Examining the Feasibility of Speech Recognition in a First-Grade Classroom, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 3, Engaging Interventions ...

From 1998 to 2006, kindergarten teachers reported devoting 25 percent more time to teaching early literacy, from 5.5 hours to seven hours per week, according to the working paper by Daphna Bassok ...

Why Kindergarten Is The New First Grade : NPR Ed Less ... a close reading of the book What Do ... And teachers who offered at least an hour a day of student-driven activities dropped from 54 to ...