When a student has a poor experience like being shamed for their reading choices, they can begin to associate reading with painful feelings of insecurity, humiliation and/or toxic stress.
Parents and early childhood education experts are ready to put the "science of reading" back on the front burner of education topics
Here are some books that will make reading time more enjoyable for children and the adults reading to or with them.
How Can We Inspire Children To Be Lifelong Readers? (Ted Talk)
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9 Children’s Books recommended by children’s bookstores for fall 2020. The recommendations include selections for early readers to young adults.
Education today is about critical literacy and 21st-century learning for the whole-child.
How parents can motivate their children to put down their tech gadgets and pick up a book
Foundational literacy skills are essential to all future learning; indeed, students who are not proficient readers by third grade fail to graduate high school on time at four times the rate of children with strong third-grade reading skills.
Some schools are changing the way they teach reading—based on research that shows background knowledge is more critical to comprehension than general skills like ‘finding the main idea.’