The Hechinger Report

‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
PBS

1st Grade

Valley PBS and Fresno Unified School District have partnered with Golden 1 Credit Union to create Reading Explorers Lessons for grades Pre-Kindergarten through Third grade. The daily lessons will be ...
OPB

As Oregon gets influx of pandemic relief funds, advocates say reading training for teachers a smart investment

“I love reading. Reading is really the reason I became a teacher,” Walker said. “But … I learned how to read fairly quickly and easily and I never understood how to teach it to kids, and I felt really ...
Education Week

Concerns Raised Over Reading Recovery’s Long-Term Effects

A widely used, and initially successful, intervention for struggling beginning readers may hurt students’ reading growth in the long run, a new study finds. Reading Recovery was considered one of the ...
Iowa Public Radio

Gov. Reynolds signs a bill meant to jumpstart reading scores in Iowa schools

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Tuesday that is part of an effort to raise reading scores for young readers in Iowa and to align reading instruction in K-12 schools with the methods ...