Keep your soon-to-be or leaving 1st (first) graders, ages 6 and 7, practicing their growing reading skills with the best 1st grade books for summer reading.

Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, Grade 1 features 11 exciting, ready-to-use lessons and activities, all of which use high-quality picture books to integrate STEM subjects with language arts.

The Iowa Department of Education will hand out 100,000 book packs — 1 million books in all — to first grade students this winter. News Sports Opinion Business Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper ...