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Summertime is a battle of parents vs. screens. Here are five tips for getting your kids to read this summer, including ...
Families who join the Crew receive a welcome bundle that includes stickers and summer reading recommendations.
It’s all because of a program, “Books by Kids,” started by Jon Escueta, the founder and owner of this barbershop in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. His young customers get $3 to read a book of their ...
Longer books, for example, are considered less “fun”; in addition, some librarians, teachers, and parents are noticing a decline in kids’ reading stamina after the disruption of the pandemic.
Among kids ages 15-17, 32 percent read no books last summer, compared with 22 percent in 2016. But summer reading need not be a hard sell to kids.
Explore the top book series that will inspire your kids to love reading. These captivating stories, brought to life through ...
The science is beginning to show what parents and teachers have long suspected: Kids' reading muscles are weaker than ever. Time to reverse course.
Kids can create and keep Reading Streaks™, as well as help unlock a donation of 100,000 books from Scholastic to Save the Children for kids in rural America with limited or no access to books. 9 ...
It turns out that movie releases do in fact spur kids to read the books they're based on. Just look at The Hunger Games, one of the more obvious example of the movie bump. In February of 2012, the ...
If those kids see Brown reading, or hear him say he likes reading, it might encourage them to pick up a book, too. “Reading improves our students’ performances in the classroom.
Re “To Persuade a Reluctant Tween to Read, Try Cash,” by Mireille Silcoff (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 8): While I appreciate Ms. Silcoff’s desire to have her daughter experience the joys of ...