Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS (AP Education Writer) ATLANTA (AP) — Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his mustard-yellow ...

American students are failing to meet certain expectations on their reading skills due to school interruptions caused by the pandemic. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, kindergartners missed most of the ...

Teachers are weaving the magic of the seasons into first grade reading lessons, using autumn leaves, winter snow, and summer sunshine to spark engagement. Seasonal reading activities link literacy ...

Last September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers catch up before state reading tests at the end of 3rd grade. By winter, ...

Research shows that most children need systematic, sound-it-out instruction — commonly called phonics — rather than older approaches that focus on context clues from pictures and stories. WICHITA, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has been pressing to use the phonics-based science of reading since early 2023, mandating the approach as ...

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 ...

Michael missed most of first grade, the foundational year for learning to read. It was the first fall of the pandemic, and for months Atlanta only offered school online. Michael’s mom had just had a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATLANTA (AP) — Michael Crowder stands ...

Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his mustard-yellow polo shirt buttoned to the top. “Give us some vowels,” says his teacher, La’Neeka Gilbert-Jackson. His ...