By the time Ana made it to my kindergarten classroom as a repeater, she felt defeated — anxious, frustrated, and convinced that reading was out of reach. Her previous struggles with literacy had ...

Kindergarten is too important to leave any ... phonics skills while engaging in hands-on play. Instead of writing letters with a pencil, they trace them in sand, shaving cream, or rice trays ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

‘W’ is the same, only with more diagonals. Down, up, down, up. When you're writing your zig-zag letters, just remember to keep your lines straight. Write four sentences that each contain one ...