Silas McLellan, a kindergartner in a play-based learning class, plays with toy blocks during Choice Time at Symonds ...

California schools will begin screening kindergartners and first- and second- graders for dyslexia to combat the state's low ...

A 2023 California law requires all students in kindergarten, first and second grade to be screened for risk of reading difficulties, including dyslexia.

When we talk about improving student achievement, the focus often lands on what happens inside schools: test scores, ...

It’s that time of year when kindergartners proudly march across the stage to receive a certification of completion, enjoy the summer, and look ahead to 1st grade. This transition once represented a ...

Learning to read isn't always easy for kids. Volunteers are needed for a Sacramento-area kindergarten reading program.

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Reading aloud is a wonderful way to build a love of stories and language. But listening to books does not, on its own, teach most children how to read. Only about 5 percent of students will learn to ...

Coralynn Covette shakes hands with her teacher Hannah Estep after receiving her certificate for completing the Kindergarten 101 class at J.B. Stephens Elementary last Friday, July 21. Coralynn was ...