In Raymond Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten classroom, boys and girls huddled together on a rug with their teacher to learn a foundational skill for reading and spelling: how to pull apart and put ...

Letter recognition is more than singing the ABCs—it’s a blend of identifying shapes, names, sounds, and forming letters. These skills form the backbone of early literacy and must be taught ...

Teaching a child to read is all about "decoding," a fundamental skill in which readers sound out unfamiliar words. While it may seem like a fancy educational term – and some parents will hear it a ...

A Maine Educator Didn’t Have a Curriculum to Teach a Foundational Reading Skill. So She Created One In Raymond Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten classroom, boys and girls huddled together on a rug ...