Children learn to read when reading becomes, to them, a means to some valued end or ends. There's an old joke, which I recall first hearing several decades ago, about a child who reached age 5 without ...

Young children who were read five books a day by their parents entered kindergarten hearing over 1 million words more than their peers.

Some of my favorite early parenting memories are reading children’s books aloud to my babies. From Sandra Boynton’s whimsical rhyming animal board books to Robert Munsch’s beloved I’ll Love You ...

KAYSVILLE — Since December, Allie Garlick has become accustomed to elementary school teachers listening to her with a bit of doubt. She understands it. After all, she is approaching them to talk about ...

It’s a summer day and it's too hot to play outside. Your child is glued to a screen, content to spend their day with air-conditioning and digital media. Sound familiar? It’s the time of year when many ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Save the Children’s early learning specialists outline five key reasons why reading to babies and toddlers every day matters so much, especially in the first years of life.

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...