Westfield’s first-graders are using virtual learning to read

The success of virtual tutoring program being used in Westfield's elementary schools to help first graders learn to read has ...
Psychology Today

This Is Your Brain on First Grade

Learning to listen in first grade helps develop cognitive skills. Source: iStock/FatCamera Tens of millions of children around the United States are going back to school. For those starting first ...
YourTango

10 Old-Fashioned Standards First Graders Had To Meet In 1979 That Prove Today’s Kids Are Likely Developmentally Stunted

The education system has changed, but that doesn't necessarily mean we've made progress. In 1979, first graders were expected to achieve a series of old-school milestones in areas that went beyond ...
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 ...

Why it’s key for educators to take action when a 1st grader struggles to read

Legislative audit reviews effectiveness of early literacy programs in Utah’s public schools.
The Washington Post

Lessons about first-graders

Michael Winerip of the New York Times has assembled 25 things about first-graders in this piece, which notes that “among the many horrors associated with the killing of 20 children at Sandy Hook ...