Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Every parent of multiple children will tell you that each child does things at their own pace and in their own way. For instance, one child might love baseball and excel at throwing one while another ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

TIME. THAT IS THE MISSION OF UNITED WAY, CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION AND FORTUNE SCHOOLS, KINDERGARTEN READING PROGRAM. JOINING US TODAY TO TELL US MORE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM AND HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED ...

If kids don’t learn to love books from their parents when they’re small, they’re less likely to grow up to be dedicated readers. Why is that a problem? And what specifically should parents do to make ...