Just as a gardener plants seeds and nurtures them into strong, flourishing plants, early childhood educators have the opportunity to nurture the earliest seeds of literacy in young children. When ...

There’s an ongoing debate about whether the common-core standards for kindergartners —and particularly one that requires them to read “emergent-reader texts"—are “developmentally appropriate,” as I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gloria Piper works with her third graders at Cypresswood Elementary in Aldine ISD in Houston, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (Brett ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1521/jj.41115625.3 This is an exciting time for research in early literacy development. Consider the major strides in recent years in ...