The Saline Courier

Kindergarten Literacy: Gaps to Close, Still Ready to Grow

As the infants and toddlers of the COVID-19 pandemic era enter kindergarten, many educators report unique challenges in this ...
Los Angeles Times

These 3 activities can foster your child’s language development before transitional kindergarten

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 ...

Lorain Public Library launches 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten reading challenge

LORAIN, Ohio — If you’ve ever read the same bedtime book so many times you can recite it in the dark, congratulations, you’re ...
Los Angeles Times

What is transitional kindergarten? Here’s what public school’s new grade has to offer.

Universal TK provides a free, high-quality preschool option for all California families with 4-year-olds. This is critical in terms of access and affordability and ensures that more families can ...
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 ...
Psychology Today

Psychology Today

Everybody is talking about high quality preschools but few folks know what high quality preschool looks like—especially for literacy development. The following checklist can be used to evaluate ...