As National Family Literacy Month draws to a close, I wanted to share some final thoughts about reading together as a family. In previous posts, I have talked about tips for starting a family book club, given ideas for books to read in your family book club, and suggested others games and activities you can [...]

Thomas Friedman is more known for his observations on world affairs than family affairs, but in a recent opinion article for the New York Times, Friedman talks about how children show higher success rates in school when their parents read to them in the early years and are involved with their lives as they grow. [...]

When my daughters were young, reading books together was one of our favorite things to do as a family. Most often, my husband, daughters and I would snuggle up together just before the girls went to sleep, and either my husband or I would read aloud. We stopped often to laugh or talk about something [...]

If you’re the parent of a younger child, you may be interested in this site I recently came across. It’s called Read Aloud Dad, and it’s written by the dad of three-year-old twins, a girl and a boy. Read Aloud Dad reviews picture books and other works of fiction and nonfiction. He’s only been writing [...]

This month in my newsletter I referred to a recent study by Scholastic, Inc. that discovered a few interesting things about kids, reading, and their parents’ concerns about technology. The Scholastic Study found that from age 6 – 17, the time kids spend reading books for fun declines, while the time they spend going online [...]

Book Bundlz, one of my favorite sites talking about books, book clubs and literacy, features an article this month from Dawn Little, who founded the website, Links to Literacy.com. The article includes tips on what you can do in your family to show how important you think literacy is. Little’s article includes ideas for things [...]

Today is National Literacy Day, and I want to highlight two articles featuring ideas for reading and family literacy. The first highlights Tips to Increase Family Literacy from the Links to Literacy newsletter. Here are a few highlights from the article: “What Can Families Do Together To Promote Literacy? The number one thing, in my [...]

October is National Reading Group month, and it’s also the one-year anniversary of the release of Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs. As you may know, I love helping new mother-daughter book clubs get started, and to celebrate my book’s birthday, I’m giving away one copy of Book by Book [...]