Kindergarten Across the U.S. Almost 4 million ... critical for children to tackle foundational tasks for oral language, vocabulary, and number sense,” she says. “Parents can play an enormous ...

A new randomized control trial in Mississippi has found that a good kindergarten literacy program can boost disadvantaged students’ vocabulary in kindergarten by as much as an extra month of school.

An important study from The Elementary School Journal explores vocabulary development at the kindergarten level among English-only students (EOs) and English-language-learning students (ELLs ...

Picking up a book is a favorite pastime for many Americans and that love of reading starts at a young age. Reading to a child ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the tiers associated with challenging words. Children who enter kindergarten with a small vocabulary don’t get taught enough ...