The Iowa Department of Education will hand out 100,000 book packs — 1 million books in all — to first grade students this ...
Iowa is usingmore than $3.5 million in American Rescue Plan dollars to provide every first-grade student in the state with ...
Overall, the state saw a 10% increase in students reading on grade level in those grades - along with 27% more kindergarten students and 14% more first graders reading on grade level. The ...
“First grade is typically the year where students build on and consolidate cognitive skills,” Sara Leman, a literacy specialist at Reading Eggs, an online reading program, wrote in an emai ...