Letter B activities are a fun way to help preschoolers and kindergartners learn the sound and shape of the letter while keeping things hands-on. When my son was little, some of his favorites were ...

Lynbrook kindergarten teacher Juliana Rotman stood at the front of the class, held up cards with the letters that spelled the word “swift” and asked her students to follow along using only the sounds ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

Kindergarten in the United States is not what it used to be. For one thing, it’s longer. In 1998, only about 56 percent of children attended full-day kindergarten. Today, that figure is 80 percent, ...

Maya Dennis is excited. She just mastered writing a lowercase letter “f” and she knows it. “I’m doing a great job!” the kindergartener shouts excitedly to no one in particular, though her tablemates ...