Stacey Canova and Carly Saal, close friends and fellow teachers, have taught first graders at Haledon Public School for more than two decades.

Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

Many first-graders are in a classroom for the first time and don't understand the routines. The result is often chaotic, but also normal for children this age, says a professor of early childhood ...

An Indiana teacher started the school year off with a new rule for her first-grade students: Keep the words God, Jesus and the devil out of the classroom. But the unidentified teacher’s message, which ...

High on words: First-graders at Dundee Highlands elementary school in West Dundee now have a lofty incentive to spend more free time reading. Literally. With the enthusiastic help of about 20 dads and ...

If you are a parent who has found your elementary school-aged children’s homework to be difficult, you are not alone! Nowadays, it seems like children, who cannot even tie their own shoes, are ...

This fall, about 50,000 Wisconsin public school kids will start first grade. They'll file through hundred-year-old hallways and new builds, meeting teachers just out of college or 40-year veteran ...