Carmen Quintanilla and her husband Cain Perez read a book to their daughter Carolina Perez, 5, during a program with Coates Family Academy at Lutie Lewis Coates Elementary School in Herndon, Va., on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has been pressing to use the phonics-based science of reading since early 2023, mandating the approach as ...

South Carolina's Kindergarten Readiness Assessment measures children across four areas: Social Foundations, Language/Literacy ...

The COVID-19 pandemic spurred major changes at home, including a drop in parents reading with their kids. Families haven't rebounded 5 years later.

Everybody is talking about high quality preschools but few folks know what high quality preschool looks like—especially for literacy development. The following checklist can be used to evaluate ...

Literacy in the early grades has become an increasingly prominent concern in the U.S. education system. States and local school districts are racing to pass much-discussed interventions like requiring ...

I am not surprised that “Kindergartners Arrive Less Ready for School Than Before Pandemic” (U.S. News, Jan. 13). As a former kindergarten and first-grade teacher who then spent 35 years preparing ...