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 ...

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 ...

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Early Child Care Research Network, The Relation of Global First-Grade Classroom Environment to Structural Classroom Features and Teacher and ...

Learning cursive in the first grade helps students, Quebec study finds. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 09 / 130913113847.htm ...