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Academy kindergarten teacher writes her own book to enhance student learning

Jennifer Zavodny, a teacher at Academy Early Childhood Center, wrote 'Piper the Pumpkin' to help kindergarteners learn ...
Education Week

Play-Based Learning in Kindergarten Is Making a Comeback. Here’s What It Means

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

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
Los Angeles Times

Parents, chill: Why you don’t need to teach your 3-year-old to read

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 ...
NOLA.com

More than half of poor Louisiana students start school without basic reading skills, study says

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 ...