Paired with fun activities, these picture books help build skills like fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality.

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

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Kindergarten changed dramatically in just over a decade; as policies continue to shift, so too could practice. For now, it's less pretend time and more reading for the kids at Walker Jones Elementary.

Kindergarten focuses on easing children from a variety of educational backgrounds — or none at all — into formal schooling. In contrast, first grade concentrates on moving students from pre-reading ...

While A Nation at Risk planted the seeds of change in 1983, No Child Left Behind-era accountability measures tended them in kindergarten policy and practice. Growing recognition of the important ...

“Kindergarten today is what first grade was 20 years ago,” says Marcy Guddemi, PhD, executive director of the Gesell Institute of Child Development in New Haven, Conn.Read IE 11 is not supported.

Kindergarten readiness mostly depends on children being ready to learn. While development varies among children, most 5- and 6-year-olds will be able to check all of those boxes.