Tweet You won’t have to encourage your kids to read at all if you ask them to help you make nutella and raspberry sandwiches by reading the recipe. That’s just one of the meals featured in an article from Real … Continue reading
Category Archives: Literacy
Tweet Libraries everywhere are rolling out their summer reading programs in an effort to keep kids reading over the summer. It’s well documented that kids lose ground in what they’ve learned when they are on summer break. Parents can help … Continue reading
Tweet A poll by Amnesty International UK found that more than half of parents participating believe reading books encourages their children to empathize with others. Parents also listed books they believe help their children see things from a different perspective. … Continue reading
Tweet Funny poems for kids are a great way to get kids reading. Because they’re often short and include a punch line, it’s easy for kids to keep turning pages. Also, they usually sneak in words that help young readers … Continue reading
Tweet Want to spend more time reading with your kids but think you’re too busy? To paraphrase a marketing term, you can’t improve on what you can’t measure. One way to measure is to borrow a technique libraries use to … Continue reading
Tweet A recent report by Scholastic discovered a high percentage of parents reading aloud to their children at home when they are younger, but that declines as their kids progress through elementary school. That may not be a surprise. Parents’ … Continue reading
Tweet Earlier this year I posted a book review of Home for Dinner, by Anne Fishel, cofounder of the Family Dinner Project. Fishel has written an article about how telling stories over the dinner table can help kids love to … Continue reading
Tweet When many obligations compete for the precious time families spend together outside of work and school, it’s easy for parents to relegate reading to a kids-only activity once kids can read on their own. But Scholastic’s recently released Kids … Continue reading
