“Warm up your choppers,” teacher Jamie Dollhopf directed 16 first-grade students standing next to their desks. The students had just completed several rhythmic reading drills. Then came the ...

A portion of each of the three first grade classes is sent to the guidance office, computer lab or library every day. Those students spend 30 minutes on reading and writing activities.

Cedar Rapids schools chief academic officer, executive director of curriculum talk about implementation of curriculum based on ‘science of reading’ Grace King Apr. 28, 2024 6:00 am, Updated ...

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.

The mayor and schools chancellor touted a new reading curriculum, NYC Reads, as the way to turn around years of stagnant test scores where only about half of the city’s third through eighth ...

The international practice is for schoolchildren to be taught to read in their primary medium of instruction in Grade 1, with most children in Vietnam, Japan, and Singapore already able to read in ...

With phonemic awareness, we need to understand first where are our kids at,” said Candida Elias, a first-grade teacher at Lancaster School District. Elias’ district uses SIPPS , or Systematic ...

To further comprehend the impact of the instruction on the next generation of educators, Gilles-Sweet Elementary School fifth ...

Students in New York City’s largest school district are so bored by the DOE’s dumbed-down math curriculum they read novels in class, parents say. Families are forced to shell out thousands of ...

The new curriculum will roll out in K-5 classrooms this fall, replacing the Reading Wonders curriculum used in the district since 2015, ... a first-grade teacher at Swift Water Elementary, ...

Chicago Public Schools' sexual education curriculum begins as soon as kindergarten, teaching kids first about human anatomy, followed by first-grade lessons on how to define "gender identity" and ...

For example, it mandates that instructional materials be free of three-cueing content in the kindergarten through third grade reading curriculum. Three-cueing is a method of teaching reading that ...