Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

US kindergarten vaccination rates dipped last year, and the proportion of children with exemptions hit an all-time high ...

These days, practically as soon as kids enter traditional kindergarten, they’re expected to be reading ... they’ll never get bored reading stories of all kinds, learning phonics and just playing, as ...

Sep. 11, 2024 — A technology which uses harmless light waves to measure activity in babies' brains has provided the most complete picture to date of brain functions like hearing, vision and ...

“We could do so much with two jars of Play-Doh and an hour,” said Kaitlin Fullerton, who has been a preschool teacher ... a little different from doing a worksheet.” Ideally, a math lesson ...

Throughout her nearly 30-year career as an elementary school reading specialist, Christie Welsby has struggled to find material that was both decodable (able to be sounded out) and engaging. “The ...

Preschool teachers have different views on finger counting. Some teachers consider finger counting use in children to signal that they are struggling with math, while others associate its use as ...

The proposed state-created textbooks, worksheets and lesson plans have ... has commissioned include two sets of textbooks for grades kindergarten through fifth in reading and language arts ...

“It is very normal in the younger grades that those teachers will deal with accidents in the classrooms — it's just been more of a shift to students coming to school that are still in diapers ...

These furry pupils are enrolled in Duke Puppy Kindergarten, a research project examining how dogs become who they are. Each semester, a new class of puppies arrives from Canine Companions ...