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Family Life

Storytelling and Reading Together as a Family

There aren't many parenting habits that pay back as reliably as reading aloud. The research on it is unusually consistent: kids who are read to regula...

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How to Set Up a Reading Nook for Young Children

A reading nook does one job: makes books the easiest, most appealing thing in reach. The single most effective tweak isn't decor — it's putting books...

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Family Life

How to Encourage a Love of Books From Birth

Most of the parenting advice on raising a reader makes it sound complicated. It is not. Three habits do most of the work: reading aloud most days, kee...

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Development

Early Literacy: Building the Foundations for Reading Before School

Children who arrive at school unable to read are not failing — they are about to start learning. But children who arrive with a rich vocabulary, the e...

7 min read

Development

Dyslexia in Children: What It Is, How It Presents, and What Helps

Dyslexia is one of the most studied learning differences in childhood and one of the most misunderstood. The "letters look backwards" idea is wrong an...

7 min read