How do you encourage summer learning?

Many teachers find creative ways to keep kids learning over the summer. These efforts are fueled by summer learning loss research whose finding is clear: Children who don’t read during the summer can lose up to three months of reading progress and that loss has a cumulative, long-term effect. Summer learning is loss is bad for kids, and it’s especially bad news for kids who struggle during the school...

Opinion: Fostering a Love for Reading

There are not many simple things you can do for your children that will be as beneficial and rewarding for their development as reading to them. Not only is the time you spend reading to them wonderful quality time for you to connect, but it also helps them build on many important skills for their future like listening, language development, and imaginative enrichment. ...

A Book in Every Home, and Then Some

When we imagine people without books, we think of villagers in places like Afghanistan. But many families in the United States have no children’s books at home. In some of the poorest areas of the country, it’s hard to find books for sale. A study of low-income neighborhoods in Philadelphia, for example, found a ratio of one book for sale for every 300 children. Tens of millions of poor Americans...

Capture your child’s imagination . . . in a book!

Came across this today and thought it was another great way to share the gift of reading this holiday season. Tikatok™ helps turn ideas into stories – and publishes those stories into one-of-a-kind books that can be shared with family and friends. Using  Tikatok’s™ easy interface your child can create, write and illustrate a book for free. Don’t know what to write about? No problem, kick-start...

Child Development Includes Reading

Reading is vital to the development of children. For nearly every aspect of life, reading is required, whether it be newspapers, computer screens, road signs, instruction booklets, forms to be filled in or even just the TV guide! Reading at a young age will only build a solid educational foundation that can result in success throughout a child’s academic years. First identify the young reader’s...

Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)- New Release

Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series #4) Author: Jeff Kinney Rate this book: [starrater tpl=10 size='16'] Overview: It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn. Greg, a self-confessed “indoor person,” is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no...