As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

First grader Aizlynn Castillo works on an assignment in Diana Oviedo-Holguin’s English-learner class at Heritage Elementary ...

Then she uses anchor charts and whole brain teaching to teach bossy-r then practice using magic-e, bossy-r, and syllable rules to decode new words. We practice dissecting words into bossy-r, keeping ...

The state’s reliance on cognitive science explains why. By Emily Hanford Ms. Hanford is the senior education correspondent for APM Reports. “Thank God for Mississippi.” That’s a phrase people would ...