Reading helps kids to develop their imagination, creativity, and intelligence.

How Can Parents Encourage Their Children To Read?

While it is true that children spend a significant portion of their day with their teachers, it is often their parents who wield more power to encourage them to read. However, a lot of parents are unclear as to how they can achieve this. The following steps outline some ways in which parents can improve their children’s’ reading skills...

Ready Your Child For Reading

It's never too soon to start your child on the path to reading. Simply talking to your infant and toddler helps her develop the vocabulary she will need as she enters school and begins to read. As you point and name objects, she will begin to understand the meaning of words, and will eventually begin to incorporate those words into her vocabulary...

Tips for choosing books for kids

Here are general tips on choosing appropriate reading material that will keep young readers engaged and enthusiastic about reading. Share these ideas with friends and family members who buy books for your child...

The Laid Back Parents Guide To Teaching Your Child To Read

At first I thought of titling this article "The Lazy Parent's Guide" but then I realized that most parents aren't lazy, but they may have a slightly different philosophy about children and learning...

Kids' top 100 books

This list was tabulated from an online survey that ran at this web site from November 1, 1999 through February 1, 2000. The results leave no doubt that America 's kids LOVE to read. You might want to compare this with Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children from nea.org ....