Read-alouds offer an opportunity for teachers to reinforce reading strategies like visualization, making inferences, prediction and word recognition within a supportive and engaging context. “Books – ...

By Travis Jonker Travis Jonker is a children’s book author and illustrator ... s bright watercolor artwork for a knockout read-aloud experience every time. In this installment of the beloved ...

"Reading aloud increases their vocabulary ... on their birthdays and another early reading program called 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten. "There are approximately 1.5 million children who ...

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 ...

Studies have shown that families who start reading aloud to their children ... they got another log book and are working toward 2,000 books before kindergarten. They are already 200 books in.

As efforts toward developing strong readers go, reading aloud to children ... to them a minimum of five books daily from a very young age; these children entered kindergarten with exposure to ...

As a former kindergarten and first-grade teacher who then spent 35 years preparing future teachers at the university level, which put me in public schools several times a week to observe interns ...