Mornings significantly influence a child's day, with positive language fostering confidence and emotional strength. Simple ...

Here’s another argument to take screens away from babies and toddlers: reading five books a day to your kid in the years before they enter kindergarten means they’ll have heard 1.4 million more words ...

The 2024 Reading by 9 guide was created through the generous support of the Ballmer Group. This year’s guide spotlights articles, activities, book recommendations and more for parents and educators of ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

I don’t claim to be an expert by any definition. I do, however, have four children, so I have a little experience. One thing I’ve learned is that the way we talk to our children has an extraordinary ...