First graders are years away from finishing high school and choosing careers. But as a group of 1st grade teachers in a Kentucky district work with their young students on reading, writing, and math, ...

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 ...

Education experts have a solid answer. If kindergarten is about transitioning away from the play-based learning of preschool, then first grade is about stepping fully into the world of academics. “The ...

Science and Children, Vol. 56, No. 9, FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT (JULY 2019), pp. 58-64 (7 pages) Lighthouse video www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vLja4hpeSk Police/ambulance ...

At just 15-years-old, a North Reading teen is now an author. Her love for reading and writing—and inspiration from her ...

[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 ...