Amy Edwards on MSN

Kindergarten ready reading skills parents can teach at home

As a veteran kindergarten teacher, I’m walking you through the most important pre-reading skills your child needs before day ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Readers applaud the return of phonics, but teaching reading shouldn’t stop there

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...
Education Week

The Expectations for Kindergarten Have Changed. How Teachers Are Adapting

It’s that time of year when kindergartners proudly march across the stage to receive a certification of completion, enjoy the summer, and look ahead to 1st grade. This transition once represented a ...

Ontario kindergarten: What changed, what didn’t and why it matters

Ontario’s revised kindergarten program asks teachers to use both explicit literacy instruction and play-based learning.
The Desert Sun

The miracle of students learning to read involves 'self-teaching'

My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...