Williams teaches students to count, read and write numbers to 20. / 1st Reading, Kristen Forth, Rockwood School District / 1st Math, Lauren Williams, Windsor C-1 School District, Windsor ...

By the end of first grade, the aim is for at least 300 automatic brain words, derived from the analysis, study, practice, and mastery of 10 words a week over 30 weeks such as in a research-based ...

At the end of first grade he knew two of the so-called "sight words" —"a" and "the." By that point in the year, first graders were expected to have memorized 200 of these high-frequency words ...

The nearly three-decade-old Reading Recovery program provides intensive, individual instruction by trained teachers for 30 minutes each day to children reading at the lowest 20 percent of their grade.