Reading and Children

Penguins 7, Jets 0
Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading
by Lawrence Goldstone, Ph.D., Nancy Goldstone
The day we picked to hold our first parent-child book group at our local public library was Sunday, January 10, 1999. Like everything else about the book group, this date and the time-3:30 in the afternoon-had been carefully chosen after months

Parenting a Child Who Struggles with Reading
Parenting a Struggling Reader
by Susan L. Hall, Louisa C. Moats, Ed.D.
Reading ability is like height and weight: it is distributed on a continuum. Some people are very good at it, some people are very poor at it, and the rest are somewhere in between. In this way, reading ability is like musical ability, athletic ability

The Crisis in Reading
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
The state of literacy in the United States today is declining so precipitously, while video and computer technologies are becoming so powerful, that the act of reading itself may well be on the way to obsolescence.

Religious Education in the Family
by Henry F. Cope
If we would teach religion to our children we must adopt the method of Jesus; that of telling stories. The story has the advantage, first, of its natural interest, and, then, of the indirect manner of its presentation of the truth, together with the fact

Children and Reading: Birth to Preschool: Proven ideas from research for parents
by National Institute of Health
When does a child learn to read? Many people might say, 'in kindergarten or first grade.' But researchers have told us something very important. Learning to read and write can start at home, long before children go to school.