Amy Word’s pre-K classroom at Westside Elementary is full of hands-on activities, experimentation and making learning fun. The class celebrates each other’s successes, including Word’s when she was ...

Have children turning three or four years old in 2024? Then great news: New York City’s 2024 3-K and Pre-K applications are open! Beginning January 10, 2024, NYC families with children born in 2021 ...

Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as "sight words", "instant words", "high frequency words" or "star words". A new reader finds sight ...

If there was ever a time to attend seriously to research concerning effects of early childhood education, this is it. If President Biden’s plan for universal state-run preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds ...

In the post “What Doesn’t Work: Literacy Practices We Should Abandon,” I wrote, “The number one concern that I hear from educators is lack of time, particularly lack of instructional time with ...

Drilling kindergartners with high frequency words on flashcards is unlikely to support the development of their sight word vocabulary. In fact, it’s likely to do more harm than good. A better approach ...

Learning sight words has never been this easy! Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as "sight words", "instant words", "high frequency words ...