Los Angeles Times

These 3 activities can foster your child’s language development before transitional kindergarten

Are you familiar with the slogan “Talk, Read, Sing”? These three activities help children create a foundation for oral language, which is essential to reading. By building oral language, children ...
The Saline Courier

Kindergarten Literacy: Gaps to Close, Still Ready to Grow

As the infants and toddlers of the COVID-19 pandemic era enter kindergarten, many educators report unique challenges in this ...
The Hechinger Report

‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
Los Angeles Times

Signs of dyslexia and reading troubles can be spotted in kindergarten — or even preschool

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California to begin universal screening of kindergarten through second-grade students for reading difficulties, ...
Psychology Today

Psychology Today

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 ...
Psychology Today

5 Research-based Practices for Kindergarten and First Grade

[Note: In this guest post, two renowned former kindergarten teachers who wrote about the extraordinary literacy successes of children in their classrooms (Feldgus & Cardonick, 1999) show how today’s ...