As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

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Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

WESTFIELD — An independent study shows that a virtual tutoring program inside the city’s elementary schools is helping first graders learn how to read. “What we’re seeing are better and higher levels ...

Flipping through his book, first grader Briden Green stretched out vowels, feeling the curvatures of each word. Sometimes, he repeated the sentences, printed in black ink, until they sounded just ...