Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...

As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged communities and shuttered schools, many educators and parents worried about kindergarteners who were learning online. That concern now appears well-founded as we’re ...

"The puppies don't care if you get stuck on a word. They're just happy to sit in your lap. So much confidence has come from this program," Brooke Hughes said Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE.

Project 75 is a reading initiative with an ambitious goal: to boost the percentage of third graders in JPS who pass the state assessment on the first attempt from 55% to 75%. Cormack presented his ...

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...

One in a series of occasional articles about the grades that provide the building blocks of a child's education. One of the Campbell Elementary School first-graders in Room 154, a determined child ...

Third grade students at Fanny Coppin Elementary gathered Wednesday to read the first of 20 books they’ll read in the next 20 weeks. The School District of Philadelphia will give a prize to every third ...

Just 1.2% of public school third graders were held back after a controversial reading and retention law took effect in Tennessee this year. In May, the Tennessee Department of Education reported that ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. California fourth graders trail the nation in reading, and half of its third graders, including two-thirds of Black students and 61% of ...