Other school or extracurricular work you do: I am the co-chair of the English Department representing grades Early School through grade six (my partner represents seven through 12). I am also a mentor ...

Keep your soon-to-be or leaving 1st (first) graders, ages 6 and 7, practicing their growing reading skills with the best 1st grade books for summer reading. I’ve curated a list of 1st grade books for ...

In a landmark study two Canadian researchers in developmental psychology, Gene Ouellette and Monique Sénéchal (2017), have mapped the powerful beginning reading-writing connection, moved us closer to ...

The academic gaps related to dyslexia can show up in verbal deficiencies years before children traditionally are expected to read, and can continue well into the teenage years, according to a study.

The academic gaps related to dyslexia can show up in verbal deficiencies years before children traditionally are expected to read, and can continue well into the teenage years. Dyslexia, a persistent ...

Here’s a history lesson for the Connecticut legislature: In the 1980s and 1990s there was a national movement to delay kindergarten entry for children “not ready” for school, called “Buy-a-Year.” The ...

First graders nowadays are better readers than they were more than a decade ago, evidence, researchers said, kids are learning in kindergarten what they used to in first grade. That's according to a ...