Children who read nonfiction will gain a deeper understanding of the world and be better prepared to write factual information in their future careers.
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Ask Questions that Inspire Connection and Reflection
Conversation about shared experiences can develop children’s closeness with others and deepen everyone’s natural reflections about themselves and their lives.
How to Help Kids Be Successful AND Fulfilled
There are simple ways adults can help kids grow up to lead fulfilling lives, like allowing them to explore their interests through reading and conversation.
Skill Without Joy is Rare
There’s a basic, simple solution that nearly doubles the number of children doing well in learning to read.
Grow Readers to Grow Communities
Literacy is always about sharing. It can serve as the accumulating glue that holds communities together and builds lasting paths to lifelong personal growth and enduring relationships in life.
Great question!
Kids learn to ask questions from the kinds of questions we ask of them.
Inhale, Exhale, Grow
Set the stage for lifelong learning by teaching kids to breathe in wonderful information through reading and to breathe out their experiences and thoughts through writing.
Be a Model–of Reading for Fun
If you want children to love reading, show them how much fun it is.
The End of Education?
Living is learning. If we aren’t learning, we are just existing.
“My Old Kentucky Home” and How It has Changed
Old books, songs and other media with racist content can be crucial conversation starters and catalysts for societal change.