With concerns rising about lagging childhood literacy rates across the country, Nationwide Children’s Hospital has begun ...

Check out books with your library card. If you want your child to become a good reader, read to them. You are your child’s first teacher, and they look to you to model behaviors. If you read to them, ...

Malachi Henderson, 6, started kindergarten in the fall, shortly after completing the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program ...

When you think back to your own kindergarten experience, it probably involved a half-day program and plenty of fun activities — finger painting, sand play and nap time. Likely the hardest parts were ...

Vanessa Silver, who tutors young children with dyslexia, works with Liina Yerro, 9, in Granada Hills. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) This year, for the first time, California schools will be ...

North Carolina's Office of Early Learning released a new guide to support families and caregivers preparing children for kindergarten.

Utah wants 70% of students in kindergarten through 3rd grade to read at their age level, but only about half do. Students in ...

Kindergarten classrooms nationwide have changed dramatically since the late 1990s and nearly all of these changes are in the direction of a heightened focus on academics, particularly literacy, ...

Kristy Timmons received funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at Queen's University, an Ontario Certified Teacher, ...