Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

Interactive read-alouds transform storytime into a dynamic learning experience, building language, comprehension, and social skills. By engaging children with questions, props, and movement, educators ...

In an age of packed schedules and constant digital distractions, families often struggle to slow down and connect. Yet one simple habit continues to make a lasting difference: reading together.

Mo Willems Workshop is introducing a new YouTube series, Read Alouds! With Kids!, on August 21. In the series, produced in-house by Hidden Pigeon Company, kids read and comment on their favorite Mo ...

Is reading to your kids a bedtime ritual in your home? For many of us, it will be a visceral memory of our own childhoods. Or of the time raising now grown-up children. Perhaps it involves a nightly ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Every five years, the international Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) provides an assessment of how well grade 4 learners around the world read for meaning. And every time South ...

A new British survey from data company Nielsen and publisher HarperCollins found that the number of parents reading aloud to their preschool-age kids declined to just 41 percent, from 64 percent in ...

1123 TODAY IS WORLD READ ALOUD DAY, A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF THE POWER OF READING AND STORYTELLING, A MILWAUKEE WOMAN’S PASSION FOR READING ALOUD HAS GONE VIRAL. JOINING ME NOW IS JEANETTE JUSTICE, THE ...