I’m sharing a playful cadence song I use for elementary end-of-year graduations and celebrations! After a long break, I’m ...

Through classic games, students can learn how to take turns, collaborate, and solve problems—skills that will serve them well ...

Preparing students for the move from one grade to the next can't happen in a rushed month before school ends or over the ...

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — The Tumwater School District has implemented mandatory play-based learning across all kindergarten ...

Various sorts of cooperation were emphasized in issues brought Monday before the Indiana Area School District's board of ...

The achievement gap in reading is evident by students’ first year of school, according to a new study – making early intervention all the more important.

Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are ...

Knowing the stakes, Rose and her classmates at their west-side elementary practiced the drill just as their teacher instructed. The third graders kept a stack of worksheets tucked underneath their ...

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In 1936, Edward William Dolch published his list of what he called “Sight Words.” Dolch, an advocate of the ‘whole word reading’ approach, argued that his list of 220 words was used in up to 75% of ...

Teaching the alphabet doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth. If your little one is still working on letter recognition, sounds, or just figuring out which way “b” and “d” go (ugh, the ...

Inside a classroom in St. Charles Parish, a group of first graders sit around their teacher as she points to an easel with a large piece of paper titled “READING.” Under it, six steps lay out how to ...