Between kindergarten and second grade, much of the school day is dedicated to helping our youngest students master phonics, syllabication, and letter-sound correspondence–the essential building blocks ...

Are you a teacher, instructional coach, or school leader who is concerned about how to support all students in accessing grade-level texts? If so, you are not alone. In fact, in a survey last year, ...

For the first time, all California schools are testing kindergarten, first, and second graders for early signs of reading difficulties, including dyslexia. Educators said catching problems early could ...

Second grade sight words are a key building block for reading fluency, and there are now more creative ways than ever to teach them. From printable worksheets to interactive digital games, resources ...

With the school year winding down, 2nd graders need a learning plan that feels less like homework and more like a new game level. By combining IXL's adaptive math and language arts skills with the ...

Despite ongoing concerns if the traditional grading system is equitable and truly reflects student success, the issue of grade request changes is also fraught and puts teachers in a particularly ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

A Greenfield second-grade teacher shares her passion for teaching students how to read, her own love of reading, scrapbooking ...