Reading to young kids improves their social skills − and a new study shows it doesn’t matter whether parents stop to ask questions

In 2024, 51% of families read aloud to their very young children, while 37% read aloud to their kids between the ages of 6 and 8 years old. Some parents have said they stop reading aloud to their ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Robots in education may ease children’s reading anxiety

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nerve-wracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, ...
KSL

A new way to improve children's reading — with a horse, of course

KAYSVILLE — Since December, Allie Garlick has become accustomed to elementary school teachers listening to her with a bit of doubt. She understands it. After all, she is approaching them to talk about ...
USA Today

Desperate to keep kids off screens? They won't be able to put these books down

It’s a summer day and it's too hot to play outside. Your child is glued to a screen, content to spend their day with air-conditioning and digital media. Sound familiar? It’s the time of year when many ...
Penn Live

Encourage children to read: it’s a gift that will last a lifetime | Opinion

Children’s Book Week is celebrated May 5 – 11. As a nation and as parents, let’s use this week to help our kids fall in love with reading again. Children’s Book Week is a perfect time to put down the ...
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Volunteers boost children's enjoyment of reading

Getting children reading in schools is helping them become "more confident, more imaginative and more creative", a charity has said. Read With Me currently works in 110 out of the 244 primary schools ...
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Reading to kids at all-time low because Gen Z parents say it's 'not fun,' study says

Gen Z parents aren’t reading to their kids as often as other generations because they feel like it isn’t fun, raising concerns about the lack of early exposure to books. The number of parents reading ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Y Reads takes struggling kids from 'learning to read' to 'reading to learn'

Over 500 Escambia County public school students have been enrolled in YMCA Reads! Program is currently offered at seven ECPS elementary schools and helps struggling readers catch back up with their ...
Tri-City Herald

Tri-Cities should develop reading in children. The benefits last | Opinion

A 2024 American Library Association report noted kids spend just 6 minutes daily reading for pleasure. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Daily adult-child reading ...
The Connecticut Mirror

Literacy rates of children in CT are declining

An 18-year-old graduate of Hartford Public High School is suing the school district, claiming the district never taught her to read or write. As a student with a disability, she claims she was ...
AOL

Children’s books you read to your kids with very adult messages

Those innocent bedtime stories you lovingly read aloud night after night contained sophisticated adult themes that sailed right over young heads but spoke directly to your parental experiences and ...