As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms ... But as the science of reading movement ...

She helped them sound out challenging words, like “away.” One by one, the students finished the book. A few read it several times in the minutes allotted. Students practice reading using whisper ...

Students are coming into 1st ... in basic reading skills—larger gains than their peers. “The low-achieving group is catching up,” Rodgers said. But on measures of reading word lists and ...

His eyes search a chart that lists vowels ... an "easy reader" aimed at a first grade reading level. He struggles with words: nice, true, voice, sure, might, outside, and because.

It’s an important question because if the child can spell these words, s/he will be able to read them automatically—a critical marker for end-of-first-grade reading comprehension and proficiency.

A new nationwide study has found that children entering first grade in 2013 had significantly better reading skills than ... skills (letter identification, word recognition, ability to identify ...