Raising a little bookworm? Reading is a milestone typically associated with the early grade school years. But parents can help foster reading skills from an earlier age. Whether you can actually teach ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

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It’s a question discussed again and again in classrooms, on playgrounds and wherever parents congregate: What age should kids learn to read? Experts say that most children learn to read by age 6 or 7, ...