Keep your soon-to-be or leaving 1st (first) graders, ages 6 and 7, practicing their growing reading ... this was first grade, but for some kids, it’s earlier, and for other children, it ...

While more children are in school today than ever before, many are not learning basic skills like reading once they get there ... Despite this, many still live in extreme poverty – on less than $1.90 ...

Talk about the pictures. • Be as expressive as possible when reading aloud to your child. Use emotion, use voices, and make sounds, as it all adds to your child's enthusiasm for the story.

National Reading Month is a great time to begin Provided by Shelley Hunsaker, District Librarian, LCSD No. 2 I’m not really ...

Reading, being read to, and sharing books in the home helps to build a child’s vocabulary and understanding of the world. Research shows children who start school with good vocabulary and ...

as Level 1 proficiency indicates the lowest level of prose, document and quantitative proficiencies, says the National Center for Education Statistics. As for children, a large portion of students in ...

Louisiana ranked 50th nationwide in childhood literacy. Today, they’ve climbed to 16th. This makes our ears perk up.

Amid a deepening national literacy crisis, awareness is growing that far too many California children ... reading. These steps follow in the path already paved by states such as Mississippi, for ...