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 ...

Effective Strategies to Teach Kids How to Establish Routines Establishing routines is essential for children as it promotes stability, security, and a sense of responsibility. Routines help kids ...

Teaching early reading requires intimate physical contact, such as snuggling with a book or cuddling with the baby or toddler at the computer. Perhaps the best thing about either lap reading or ...

As a kindergarten teacher, a big part of Violet Nye’s job is teaching kids how to read. But the way she teaches her students is very different from how she learned as a kid. She remembers being taught ...

Teaching babies to read is a political hot potato. Should you teach your baby or toddler to read? Or not? What’s the best way? Are baby/toddler-reading products safe? Are baby readers “outliers”? A ...

My 4-year-old nestled beside me as I swam through the sea of tabs on my laptop. My email tab popped up, and “Welcome, Mi” flashed at the top of the screen. My eyebrows furrowed, wondering why my ...

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To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...