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A non-profit group dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the U.S. says that if we don’t get our kids reading, we will soon be facing a national crisis.
In a report released this week, the Annie E. Casey Foundation finds that kids who are proficient readers by the time they leave third grade are ultimately more successful in school, work and life. And those who aren’t? They might well be on a “glide path” to becoming high school dropouts. And at the end of that dropout path is potential poverty and, ultimately, a negative economic impact on the nation. Continue reading »
If you’re hoping your kid will be inspired to go to law school one day and rake in the big bucks, John Grisham may be the man to convince them.
But you won’t have to dumb down “The Firm” for your tot. The best-selling author is turning his attention to children’s literature this spring. Continue reading »
Ever feel like all your kids do is eat . . . and eat . . . and eat? Days will go by in my house where every time I turn around, my daughter is begging for something more, something more. They’re usually followed by a growth spurt and days of eating like a bird, but that period of constant eating can make it impossible to get anything done.
Enter Jeremy Tankard’s hilarious board book, Me Hungry! Published last year, I somehow missed the news that Tankard (a house favorite) had another book out. Continue reading »
The nation’s oldest children’s literacy program is in dangerous thanks to proposed spending cuts at the federal level. Reading is Fundamental or RIF, receives eighty percent of its budget from the feds, and a new budget proposal would make all of that go away.
So why should you care? Continue reading »
E-books might be the wave of the future, but for New Jersey, it’s old school books on tape that are making the difference. That’s because the voices on those tapes are prisoners.
And the kids listening are the prisoner’s own children. Continue reading »
Stop your groaning about the groundhog’s six weeks of winter decree. There’s a bit of good news in all of this: more time for cuddling up on the couch with your kids for some snowy winter reads.
Babble checked out some of the best books about winter, and here are our little reader’s favorites: Continue reading »
In 2005, Freakonimics authors Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt made the controversial claim that reading to children doesn’t make them better readers.
Instead, they listed a number of factors that had an impact on reading: high socioeconomic status and highly educated parents, for example. In short, your child’s reading success was based more on who your were rather than what you did.
According to a new study out of Ohio University, they were at least half right: Genetics do play a large part in early reading development, say researchers there. But parents of poor readers shouldn’t be discouraged, because they also found that a supportive environment can help all readers make good gains.
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