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Does Your School's Elementary Reading Program Beat the Odds?

When looking at schools for your child, check out their elementary reading program. Reading is an essential part of education, so make sure the school you choose caters to all levels.

Parent-Teacher Communication: What Should I Ask at Conferences?

Bring a list of questions to conferences for the most effective parent-teacher communication. Start with this list. Who knows? You might help clarify your student's homework and see your child improve grades.

My Son Hates to Read

If you find that getting your son to read is a struggle, you can take comfort in the fact that you're not alone. Isobel Livingstone offers tips that turn boys on to reading.

Fill Your Family's Days with Adolescent Books at the Library

When you're planning out fun family activities for bored kids, boost the library to the top of your list. Participate in a library reading program or just browse among popular children's books.

Balancing Public School Policy with Parents' Problems with Book Choices

Battles over reading lists and appropriate books for teenagers can cause major education issues between schools and parents. First Amendment principles and good parent-teacher communication can offer some solutions.

Research Round-up: Gender Talk

When it comes to education, gender issues are intensely researched. Some recent findings shed light on how to get boys to read and girls to take more math and science.

Keep Your Child Reading Popular and Classic Children's Books This Summer

Kids may not think of summer as the best time to curl up with popular children's books and classic children's books. Here are some ways to keep children of all ages reading every summer day.

Learning for Summer? Head to the Library for More than Just Reading

If you're looking for your community's learning hub, head to the library. You'll find more than the traditional library reading program as everyone from toddlers, babies, teenagers, and adults gather to find learning for summ...

Family Ideas for Summer Reading

Want to encourage your children to read all summer long? Try these family ideas for keeping kids reading, like taking books and magazines to the pool, having a reading vacation and more.

Adolescent Books for Summer Reading

Fill your child's summer days with adolescent books that will enchant and enthrall. This article provides a long list of books for toddlers, elementary children, and teenagers. They range from popular children's books to awar...

Popular and Classic Children's Books Make Summer Reading Fun

Whether toddlers' books or teenagers' books, keep your children's brains burning and imaginations soaring with popular children's books. Promote reading throughout the summer with handy time-saving tips.

Annotated Bibliography of Art Books for K12 Grades

Teaching your K12 grades children to love art from an early age is just as important as nurturing their love of reading. The following list will help you increase their enjoyment of both art and reading.

Celebrate National Children's Book Week with Fun Adolescent Activities

Schools and families can host numerous adolescent activities to celebrate reading. Popular children's books and events that celebrate reading can make books fun for kids in all K12 grades.

Teach Children Behaviors to Become Lifelong Readers

Want your kids to be lifelong readers? Teach children behaviors that encourage reading, provide them with popular children's books, and be a reader yourself.

Teachers' Top 100 Teenagers', Children's and Toddlers' Books

This list shows the top 100 picks teachers have made of popular children's books. The reading list ranges from toddler's books to teenager's books. Find inspiration from these classic children's books today.

Parent-Teacher Communication: What Teachers Wish Parents Knew

Teachers welcome parent involvement in education. There are things, though, that they wish parents knew so that they could be better partners. This article contains 20 pieces of advice that teachers have for parents.

A Library Reading Program Isn't What It Used to Be!

Today’s library is a lively places with a library reading program and other services we wouldn’t have dreamed of finding at our childhood libraries. Grab your children and explore your lively library.

Reading 101: From Consonant Sounds to Finishing Popular Children's Books

Reading isn't just sounding out words and moving on to popular children's books. Here are tips to help your child do well in his elementary reading program and improve parent teacher communication.

Ten Reading Rights for Children

According to reading teachers, when it comes to reading popular children's books, classic children's books, or an elementary reading program, parents must ensure their children's literacy rights are honored.

Eight Tips to Make Your Library Research Trip a Success

Does your child need to do library research for a school assignment? Here are some tips to make any library trip successful, whether your child consults classic children's books or teenagers' books.

A Bee in My Head

Read this poem about the joy that a mother feels in being the first and only person a child wants to share his most treasured experiences with.

Classic Children's Books Foster Emotional Intelligence

Reading classic children's books and popular children's books can boost emotional intelligence, which may be even more important than IQ to students' success.

Read Now to Improve Grades Later

The one subject kids complain about most is math. But there's good news: Studies say kids can eliminate their fears by reading books that integrate math into the storyline. Here's how you can help.

Real Life Story: Center-based Tutoring Can Improve Kids' Grades

Elementary tutoring can help improve your child's grades in school. Center-based tutoring tests students on their individual knowledge—not their age or school grade.

Inspire Readers by Sharing Popular Children's Books

Nothing inspires children to become readers more than sharing a story with their parents. Give children a rich diet of great adolescent books, popular children's books, and classic children's books and enjoy the feast togethe...

Positive Adolescent Parenting: Are You Ready to Take the Challenge?

Don't deflate your compliments with "but." These tips offer some great family ideas on how to change your language for more successful adolescent parenting. See what three simple letters can do for your family.

Select Toys to Encourage Developmental Learning

The toys you buy can make a difference in adolescent child development. Find out which toys can be both fun family activities and ways to promote childhood brain development and learning.

Dealing with Grief: Popular Children's Books Help With Healing

It's always difficult to help a child understand the death of someone close to him. These popular children's books that deal with loss can help you explain about death with pictures and words.

Nine Tips to Build Reading Comprehension

Your child may read lots of popular children's books and classic children's books. But how can you make sure your child understands what she or he is reading? To boost comprehension, try these 9 tips.

Family Ideas: 10 Commandments of Reading for Parents

How can you encourage your child to love books? For every family, ideas will vary. But if you follow these rules, your child is almost certain to learn to read easily—and more important, choose to read frequently.

Tutoring May Not Be the Answer for Students Who Struggle with Reading

Parents are often quick to place blame on teachers or even their own children when a child fails to succeed in school. Want to know why tutoring sometimes works and then other times doesn't? Learn how to identify and prevent ...

Meeting a Popular Children's Book Author

With her adolescent books about children and divorce and other hot topics, Judy Blume helped me through some tough times with lots of laughs. Three decades later, I thanked her in person.

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