Last month, with virtually no fanfare, Apple released a new app for the Apple TV that brings ebooks to your TV screen. However, don’t expect to read David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest,” Ron Chernow ...

The first image many people have of school is a circle of small children, sitting cross-legged, paying attention (or not) to an adult reading a book aloud and showing pictures to the class. Indeed, ...

Continuing our series on Read Alouds That Rock, we asked five expert book club facilitators to share some of the ways they run their clubs and spread book love with young readers. Click here to see ...

From bedtime stories to storytime on the classroom rug, read-alouds are a powerful educational tool for students across grade levels. Reading aloud can capture young people’s interest in stories and ...

Why is it important for kids to learn about spring? In spring, kids discover new, budding plants and the birth of cute baby ...

A mother and her tween daughter are browsing titles in a locally owned independent bookstore. The young girl is perusing the extraordinary Newbery Honor–winning memoir-in-verse Brown Girl Dreaming by ...

Often they begin with "Once Upon a Time," but there are other beginnings, too, like "Once there was a tree," and "All children, except one, grow up." No two are exactly alike, but they all have ...

Reading a picture book aloud from her armchair, 20 children gathered on the rug at her feet, kindergarten teacher Jamie Landahl is carrying on a practice that’s been a cornerstone of early-literacy ...

Instilling a habit of reading in children supplements what they learn in school, but reading aloud to children by parents, teachers or even other children, is a way for them and adults to bond and to ...

As schools continue in virtual and hybrid capacities because of the pandemic, parents and teachers are in search of ways to make up for lost learning time and prevent the inevitable COVID slide.

Continuing our series on Read Alouds That Rock, we asked a number of literacy experts to share their strategies for integrating nonfiction storytimes in their work with young readers. Click here to ...

When I was a kid, my brother, sister, and I came to the dinner table prepared to do three things: Bless the food, eat, and share a story. We grew up in a family where the oral tradition was woven into ...