This instruction should also follow a scope and a sequence that maps out when skills are covered and reviewed so students learn the principles according to a research-driven hierarchy across the ...

Kim Kohlrus’ 2nd grade classroom is alive with wiggling, chanting children. They’re on their feet, swaying and twisting as their teacher leads them in a call-and-response of letter ...

The period spanning Kindergarten through Grade 3 is the most critical for instruction in the language arts. During that time students acquire the foundational skills needed for later academic, social, ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I ...

Chelsea Salts, 7, practices with a handset tube during her phonics training. The handset tube helps the students hear themselves as they quietly read out loud. Soon-to-be second-grader Chelsea ...

Proficiency rates across first and second grade were above 70%, and transitional kindergarten was at 48%. The district’s goal is to hit 85% proficiency across grades by the end of each school year.