Have you heard about the 1,000 Books Foundation? I love this idea–read 1,000 books to your preschooler, before the little one starts kindergarten. It’s okay to count books that you re-read. That’s ...

Malachi Henderson, 6, started kindergarten in the fall, shortly after completing the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program ...

Check out books with your library card. If you want your child to become a good reader, read to them. You are your child’s first teacher, and they look to you to model behaviors. If you read to them, ...

Are you familiar with the slogan “Talk, Read, Sing”? These three activities help children create a foundation for oral language, which is essential to reading. By building oral language, children ...

A new report out by the advocacy organization Defending the Early Years calls the Kindergarten Common Core Standard that children should be able to read emergent texts developmentally inappropriate.

Utah wants 70% of students in kindergarten through 3rd grade to read at their age level, but only about half do. Students in ...

Texarkana families with children in kindergarten through third grade have expanded access to literacy support after Read and Rise was approved as a vendor for the Arkansas Tutoring Literacy Grant.

Idaho legislators this year plan to push to fund optional full-day kindergarten, a proposal experts say would help improve Idaho’s reading outcomes as children enter first grade. Lawmakers said not ...