If you have a preschooler at home, this interesting information via TravelingToLiteracy might alert you. According to researchers, reading is a learned skill rather than an endowment.
“PROVEN METHODS: Early Reading First and Reading First”
How can we, as parents, help our preschoolers to acquire reading skills as early as they can?

Psychology Today posted an interview with Dr. W. Fischer on children’s reading disabilities. The population of children with problem reading projected by Dr. Fischer is not small indeed.
How big is the population of children with problem reading? He estimated that, “perhaps 1 in 10 need extra help.”
“It depends on where you set the criteria, but […]

As parents, we all know that our children will benefit from reading. But many of us are sometimes discouraged by their indifference to reading. Some parents said to me their children even complain that reading is boring. To other parents, watching them sitting in front of a television or computer to play video games all […]

Elizabeth Kennedy, an experienced educator, posted 10 practical tips for parents on raising a child who loves books and reading. Reading is a habit thing. As parents, we need to consistently introduce “reading” into our children’s daily life. Some parents might wonder if they could follow through all 10 tips in order to bring up […]