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Mothers, fathers, grandparents, teachers and caregivers, Improve-Reading-Skills.Com is for you.
Learn how you CAN teach your preschooler how to read through proven scientific strategies.
Learn Proven reading strategies from research for about how to
develop strong readers from birth thru adolescence.
“Bringing Scientific Research To Learning”.
Every step a child takes toward learning to read leads to another. Bit by bit, the child builds the knowledge that is necessary for being a reader.
Scientists have discovered that babies learn much more from the sights and sounds around them than we
thought previously.
Try sitting your baby in your lap and read a book to him for the first time. How different from just talking!P>
How Does a Book Work?
Children are fascinated by how books look and feel.
Writing and reading go hand in hand. As your child is learning one, he is learning the other.
If your child’s first language is not English, he can still become an excellent English reader and
writer.
Activities For Developing Reading Skills In Your Preschooler
- Putting a price on the value of rural schools
- Time to move language on to a Higher plane
How Teachers Can Help Every Child Become a Reader
“Bringing Scientific Research To Learning”.
Georgia eyes Master Teacher program over national certification
While national board certification may not be enough to warrant a bonus check for Georgia teachers, earning certification from the state may be. More than 2,500 national board certified teachers now receive a 10% salary bonus from the state. But...
Obamas read to second-graders in Washington, DC
Does it mean anything that President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited a public charter school in the District this week? Washington, DC, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton thinks so. "I think that it is significant that after first lady...
Boy becomes good speller because of love of reading
Noah Walker’s talent for being a good speller likely started when he learned to read at age four. Walker, a Windsor Middle School eighth-grader, explained that he was “bored” about not being able to read when he was young. So,...
Real men don't just eat quiche, they read
The United Way of Allen County, Indiana, is looking for a few good men. Make that 35 male volunteers to read to local third-graders through a new program called Real Men Read. Organizers hope to assign one man to each...
Book pick of Laura Bush banned in California school district
A book recommended by former First Lady Laura Bush was today officially banned in schools in Stanislaus County, California. Bless Me, Ultima, a novel on former First Lady Laura Bush's Top 10 Reading List for All Ages, was officially banned...
Second generation of Amazon's e-reader due out next week
You know that saying about how one can't be too thin or too rich? Amazon would agree. The e-commerce giant is predicted to rake in $1.2 billion in 2010 from sales related to its Kindle e-reader, according to a new...
Outstanding nonfiction books honored
Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator by Shelley Tanaka, illustrated by David Craig, has been given the 2009 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). In addition, five...
Finding time for professional development a tough call for Iowa
Iowa schools are sending children home more often so teachers can use class time to sharpen their own skills. Why? Because professional development has gained a foothold in schools as pressure has grown to boost test scores and expectations for...
City of Brotherly Love tackles adult illiteracy
Rebecca Wagner can't forget the most recent student she lost to humiliation. He was about 50 and had been brave enough to make his way to the Community Learning Center in Kensington, not far from Philadelphia. That alone was huge,...
Global Action Week will spotlight literacy
Every year, the Canadian Global Campaign for Education (CGCE) works with partners around the world to organise Global Action Week, an international campaign to tell politicians and journalists that we need to provide quality education to the 75 million children...
Literacy coaches broaden scope of support
When Carole Sample started teaching 22 years ago, reading specialists focused solely on lower-ability students needing reinforcement and repetition. Today, her job as a literacy teacher at Maple Glen Elementary in Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana, also is about broadening the...
NAEP being administered in 19,000 schools in United States
From January 26 to March 6, 2009, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is being administered in mathematics, reading, and science to over one million 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade students in more than 19,000 public and private schools across...
Libaries experience rising tide of patrons
Nearly every study table is full with patrons sipping lattes and surfing the Web. Teens are curled up in easy chairs. In a worried knot by the doorway, job seekers gather around a sign-up station for the Internet, waiting for...
Libraries becoming endangered species
Dwindling tax dollars are forcing libraries to close branches, cut hours and end programs just as more people are turning to them for services. "Libraries rely on public dollars, and we know there are less public dollars," says Sari Feldman,...
IRA extends grant deadlines
The International Reading Association has extended the deadline for two of its grants. The Regie Routman Teacher Recognition Grant deadline is extended to March 13, and the Steven A. Stahl Research Grant is extended to February 16. For further details...
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