Education Week

Students’ Reading Losses Could Strain Schools’ Capacity to Help Them Catch Up

Corrected: An earlier version of this story noted an incorrect cost estimate for using daily tutoring to catch students up on lost instruction. The iReady study estimated it would cost $66 billion.
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 ...
PBS

1st Grade

Valley PBS and Fresno Unified School District have partnered with Golden 1 Credit Union to create Reading Explorers Lessons for grades Pre-Kindergarten through Third grade. The daily lessons will be ...
EdSurge

Schools Are Using Voice Technology to Teach Reading. Is It Helping?

A first grade student is trying to read a passage on her iPad. A digital avatar Amira, clad in olive green, is listening. Her face isn’t particularly demonstrative, but she’s trying her best with ...

First-grade teacher at South Central Calhoun receives Golden Apple

ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa — South Central Calhoun is a rural school district in northwest Iowa with about 900 students, and is now ...
Oregonian

In Portland, intensive reading tutoring delivers eye-opening results, propels some children to grade-level in months

Three mornings a week for the past several months, a Northeast Portland second grader named Jaden has left his classroom for a 30-minute session focused on taking words apart and putting them back ...