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While teachers take the lead on teaching students how to read, parents play a key role in fostering a love of reading. Here's how to do it.
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"...setting young people up for reading success within this environment is a more worthwhile cause than wishing they’d spontaneously pick up more Hawthorne and Vonnegut."
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The patterns are very, very predictable and a lot rides on how parents present the activity to their children.
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New evidence suggests that, to our brains, reading and hearing a story might not be so different.
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Here’s a selection of 2019 picture books that will ease the transition to school.
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Here are a few of the hottest upcoming family and teen movies hitting the big screens in fall 2019—and some read-alike suggestions.
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Enjoy this curated playlist of podcasts for families inspiring acts of kindness through listening. It includes fiction, non-fiction stories and book discussions.
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Here's a look at the latest research on which one is more effective.
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"To save everyone some stress, the fight doesn’t need to be about what they’re reading, just that they do it."
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Teaching young students how to write by hand before moving on to keyboarding can help improve their reading fluency as well.
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Is reading after lights out such a bad thing? This writer doesn't think so.
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“Every LGBTQ kids’ book that manages to make its way onto a bookstore or library shelf is a life raft,” says Melanie Gillman, creator of As the Crow Flies.
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When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty. We need a new literacy for the digital age.
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... and the movies and TV shows we watch.
