Keep your soon-to-be or leaving 1st (first) graders, ages 6 and 7, practicing their growing reading skills with the best 1st grade books for summer reading. I’ve curated a list of 1st grade books for ...

SIOUX CITY — Anahi Gileta loves to read new books, especially when there is an audience. When she's at home, the Hunt A+ Arts Elementary School first-grader makes a crowd out of her four cats and four ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - It was an exciting day for students in Mrs. Harrison’s class at Harrison Elementary School in Cedar Rapids. First graders opened up their first decodable book packs they’ll ...

More than 200 first-graders, 232 to be exact, in the Pleasant Valley School District completed this year’s Booker Bear Reading Challenge. In all 93 percent of first-graders in the district ...