Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are grounded in science and tested by expert educators.

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

A nationwide study found students who attended a preschool Montessori program have better short-term memories and reading outcomes by the end of kindergarten than their peers.

In most states, schools are required to screen students as they enter kindergarten - a process that is meant to identify ...

Third-grade co-teacher Rebecca Leach helps pupils select the best words for a sentence at Lima’s Heritage Elementary on Tuesday. LIMA — John Parent sat in the kindergarten classroom in wonderment as ...

Nationally, fourth grade students’ reading scores have been sliding for a long time.  But in the past five years, Louisiana ...

TIME. THAT IS THE MISSION OF UNITED WAY, CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION AND FORTUNE SCHOOLS, KINDERGARTEN READING PROGRAM. JOINING US TODAY TO TELL US MORE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM AND HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED ...

4:16 p.m. June 2, 2025: An earlier version of this report incorrectly said teaching phonics was new to Long Beach Unified. Some phonics has been taught in the district for years, but a new focus on ...