Kindergarten is the new first grade when it comes to learning reading skills," Rodgers said. In the four basic skills, low-achieving students narrowed the achievement gap with other readers.

First grade in particular — “the reading year,” as Miller calls it — is pivotal for elementary students, when their literacy skills “really take off.” Kindergarten focuses on easing children from a ...

Black and Hispanic students in kindergarten, first grade and second grade have ... 33 percent of second-grade students are not ready for reading at their grade’s level — 9 percentage points ...

The initiative not only seeks to provide kindergarten students with a head start in their reading journey but also includes a randomized controlled research study to evaluate the efficacy of ...

Older students struggling with reading is not a phenomenon ... This happens in students’ first years of school, usually kindergarten through 2nd or 3rd grade. But as reporting from Education ...

Given many students’ struggles with reading, the work has ... more than twice as many first graders as before the pandemic tested at kindergarten levels or below in their literacy skills ...

Poor students who attend pre-kindergarten are twice as likely ... level” and considered significantly at risk for reading difficulties. Beginning this year, a new state law says that third ...

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the ...

State Superintendent Catherine Truitt presented preliminary data showing that reading proficiency rates for kindergarten and first-grade students rose sharply over the course of last school year ...

including 71 students who were reading at a kindergarten level, 88 students reading at a first-grade level and 45 students reading at a second-grade level. "It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking ...