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

Are you familiar with the slogan “Talk, Read, Sing”? These three activities help children create a foundation for oral language, which is essential to reading. By building oral language, children ...

Elyria Public Library once again is inviting children from infancy to 5 years old to the Kindergarten Reading Challenge which promotes early learning and helps prepare students for the classroom. The ...

California students who attended transitional kindergarten were more engaged in the learning process and better prepared for math and reading when they entered kindergarten than children who did not, ...

Malachi Henderson, 6, started kindergarten in the fall, shortly after completing the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program at the St. Louis County Library.

The current school year might still be a few weeks away from ending, but the Reading School District is urging parents to start looking ahead to the next one. In particular, parents with kids who will ...

Do the common-core standards demand too much of kindergarten readers?, asks a new piece this week from KQED’s Mind/Shift. It’s a debate we’ve heard before. Much of the back-and-forth centers around ...

In most states, schools are required to screen students as they enter kindergarten - a process that is meant to identify students who may need extra help learning to read. However, a new study by MIT ...

LORAIN, Ohio -- If you’ve ever read the same bedtime book so many times you can recite it in the dark, congratulations, you’re already halfway to a library challenge that rewards repetition, routine ...

To the editor: The article implies that high standards will lead to hard work and real achievement. But there is no evidence that tougher standards lead to more learning, and no evidence showing that ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...

Coalition of business, education and political leaders pushing for full-day kindergarten Because full-day K isn't required, the state isn't sure which schools have it and which do not Educators say ...