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Develop a love of reading that will last a lifetime! Browse tips by education specialists and build essential early literacy skills for your child's success.

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How Bedtime Stories can Reinforce Literacy Skills

A bedtime routine with stories builds a foundation of phonics, new vocabulary, and reading comprehension for children. Plus, your reading encourages excitement for reading. We…

Lisa Van Groningen
May 22, 2024
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More Literacy Tips to Help Your Child Reach Academic Success

A recent study was conducted in Canada and revealed:  …that 40% of adults have a hard time reading a newspaper, filling out a work- application…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 14, 2022
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Kids and Learning to Read: An All-in-One-Guide

So, this blog attempts to put learning to read into the proper context. For example, it will cover its importance, the history of teaching approaches…

Robert McKenzie
Feb 13, 2022
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Reading Motivation: A Critical Foundation in Early Reading Development

Looking more deeply into reading motivation can support your little one’s learning to navigate their journey in becoming a lifelong reader. What Exactly is Reading…

Jenna Dowd
Feb 13, 2022
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How to Teach Story Elements to Kids

Before children can utilize the key elements of a story, they need to be able to identify the sections confidently.  So, what are the components…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 11, 2022
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6 Tips to Help Your Child Develop Reading Skills

The time of bedtime stories has passed, and now it’s time your children started reading on their own. You’re probably wondering how you can help…

Jennifer Holland
Feb 10, 2022
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Reading to Kids: The “Million-Word Gap”

The benefits of reading to kids are fairly well known, but the importance of reading to them can be understood with the following statistic: Young…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 10, 2022
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10 Tips for Improving Reading and Language Learning

If your children are anything like my nieces and nephews, they want the same books read night after night, and often avoid their slightly trickier…

El Robertson
Feb 6, 2022
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The Best Inexpensive Children’s Books that Foster Reading

Babies love to listen to your voice in utero, and that love continues when they join us earth-side. There are many different things you can…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 6, 2022
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Reading vs. Adult Communication

Reading is excellent for so many different skills beyond speech and language development. It works on attention, comprehension, vocabulary, turn-taking, and fine motor skills such…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 5, 2022
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How to Improve Reading Comprehension, Fluency, and Speech Production

Reading comprehension and fluency can have many positive effects, such as: Growing Vocabulary with Speech Blubs Speech Blubs is a great way to teach new…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 5, 2022
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Early Literacy: Why NOT to Teach Your Child the ABC's!

Various teaching methods have long been the targets of heated discussions, and none more so than phonics and whole language teaching. A teacher’s decision to…

Talia Kovacs
Jan 25, 2022
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5 Strategies to Help Your Child’s Reading Development

Before giving you some background on how important reading is to your child’s development and why you should be reading on a nightly basis, I…

Stacie Bennett
Jan 16, 2022
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I’m Dyslexic and My Preschooler Wants to Read: What Next?

For parents who have had challenges related to reading for most of their lives, reading and teaching one’s child how to read can be a…

Dr. April J Lisbon
Jan 15, 2022
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Improve Your Child’s Early Literacy Skills

Improving literacy skills does not mean giving your three-year-old assignments to work on, but simple actions can help. The best-known working method is reading stories…

Connie Elser
Jan 15, 2022
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How to Foster an Early Love of Reading

If you start a routine of reading to your child, you provide health and development benefits that last a lifetime!  To help create a love…

Liz Talton
Jan 15, 2022