Learning to Read
Growing Reader
A Summer Reading Star Chart for Beginning Readers
This easy, at-home activity helps readers keep track of new books, mark the achievement of reading them, and consider: Which ones were really great?
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Fun Word Games To Keep Your Kids Learning This Summer
Simple pen-and-paper word games are a great go-to when kids say they're bored and a fun way to reinforce fundamental reading skills in the weeks leading up to the new school year.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
From Teacher to Parent: Positive Discipline Tools That Work
The Positive Discipline approach provides a model that takes everyday misbehaviors and turns these trying moments into opportunities to teach children the important life skills they’ll need to be successful in the long-term.
Growing Reader
Tween
Brand-New to America and Learning, One Book at a Time
Author and ELL teacher Ruth Freeman shares some of the challenges children learning to read in English encounter and which stories get her students hooked on books.
Tips & Advice
Do You Hear What I Hear? Why the Music of Reading Aloud Matters for Kids
We talked to a reading expert to find out how reading prosody — a.k.a. the art of reading with inflection and emphasis — impacts fluency and understanding for kids.
Tips & Advice
Rethinking Reading Levels: Some Practical Advice from the Experts
Confused by the "rules" around reading levels? You're not alone. The co-authors of The Psychology of Reading share some valuable insights.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
How to Make Reading Fun: 25 Ideas Kids Will Love
Bestselling author, mom, and one-time struggling reader Jean Reagan shares some great ideas for how to make reading fun for kids.
Growing Reader
8 Ways Parents Discourage Their Kids from Reading
Sometimes we unintentionally discourage our kids from reading. It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Here’s what not to do — and why.
Growing Reader
Tween
When Reading Speed Matters for Kids
When it comes to kids and reading, does speed matter? The answer is yes and no. A reading specialist explains what we should pay attention to.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
20 Sight Word Games, Activities, and Reading Ideas
Knowing sight words at a glance makes reading easier. Here you’ll find sight word games, apps, multi-sensory activities, and reading ideas.
Tips & Advice
The Tough But Important Task of Raising Free-Range Readers
My first maternal instinct is often to shield, to do what I can to help my child avoid discomfort. But from the beginning, I was eager to share stories with my daughter that brought both smiles and tears.
Tween
Reading Strategies and Book Suggestions for Struggling Readers
How can you help an older child who struggles with reading? Here you’ll find go-to strategies plus great book suggestions that are at a lower reading level yet still interesting to kids.
