A spirited 5-year-old, Ella Whalen squirmed away from her laptop every chance she got during Zoom kindergarten this year. One day when her mother, Christine, left the kitchen for a moment, the tyke ...

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 ...

Read a fairytale, learn about story sequence, and do a quick math problem! Literacy lessons for 1st graders taught by Colorado master teacher Christina Gillette Randle. In response to school closures ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from JumpStart 1st Grade Reading JumpStart 1st Grade Reading, later released as JumpStart Reading for First Graders, is a game released in 1997 that focuses on ...

This fall, about 50,000 Wisconsin public school kids will start first grade. They'll file through hundred-year-old hallways and new builds, meeting teachers just out of college or 40-year veteran ...

Many Anchorage first graders who missed out on critical in-person learning moments during kindergarten as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic are at risk of not learning to read by third grade. In ...

Many first-graders are in a classroom for the first time and don't understand the routines. The result is often chaotic, but also normal for children this age, says a professor of early childhood ...

(Gray News) – A first grade teacher recently set up a mock Southwest plane in her classroom for her students to “fly” to Mexico. She created pretend passports for each student to make the experience ...