As a kindergarten teacher, Derrick Criner knows that progress is a process and trying new things may lead to enriching experiences. Initially, the 2013 Glacier High School grad thought he would go ...

An increase in both the rates of homeschooling and the expectations of children who are entering kindergarten means the burden of teaching our youngsters to read is falling on parents like never ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

After 13 years of teaching, Hillsboro kindergarten teacher Kandi Hess did not know the rule that determines when the letter g makes the hard “guh” sound versus the soft “juh,” until she started a year ...

Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ first year using an evidence-based curriculum to teach reading has been embraced by students and teachers despite a few shortcomings, which include the rigid ...

Reading time at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' new Mint Hill Elementary School. I hate to admit this, but I learned almost as much about reading instruction from four hours of listening to “Sold a ...

Are you familiar with the slogan “Talk, Read, Sing”? These three activities help children create a foundation for oral language, which is essential to reading. By building oral language, children ...

MANCHESTER, MI – Wedged between shelves of colorful books and a row of filing cabinets in an annex outside Manchester’s Klager Elementary School, Melissa Yekulis found her “happy place.” She’s ...

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. On Feb. 8, the article was updated to ...

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...

What do you do with a 5-year-old, sobbing mess? I can distinctly remember dropping my daughter, Sara, off for her first day of kindergarten several years ago. Up until then, Sara was what my wife and ...