Imagination Library RVA – working with Dolly Parton’s literacy program – has enrolled more than 1,600 young kids to receive free books. And they’re still going!
Browsing: Literacy
Parents have been trying to raise readers and connect their kids with books for years. Karen shares a strategy from her mom’s playbook and tips that work today.
Literacy-boosting agency Read to Them is taking the lead on spreading books and reading joy and energy of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Richmond.
How local nonprofits – Read to Them, Lit Limo, Reach Out and Read, CMoR, Little Free Library – are helping connect kids with books in in under-invested regions.
Read Aloud to a Child Week is October 24 through 30 by Kayla Aldrich with Read to Them Be it around the dinner table, on a car ride, under…
My girls are four and two, and we have been reading since day one. When they were born, I pledged to read them a different book each day throughout…
Want to raise a reader? This month, I decided to review Every Child a Super Reader by Pam Allyn and Ernest Morrell in the hopes of keeping my kids’ positive…
Research indicates that less than 20 percent of all eighth graders read for fun on a regular basis. Want reading to be more than fundamental again? Embrace summer reading. 1. Let your…
“So many children don’t read,” argues Donalyn Miller, author of The Book Whisperer, “They don’t read well; they don’t read often enough; and if you talk to children, they will…
It’s hard not to be disheartened by the findings of the 2007 study To Read or Not To Read, “Half of the adults in this country do not read either…
What if schools, tasked with teaching our children to read, were actually systematically killing their love of literature? According to Kelly Gallagher, author of Read-i-cide: How Schools Are Killing Reading…
