A raccoon chef gets an eye opener, grocery shopping goes bananas, and reading with Dad turns zany: 3 picks from columnist and teacher.

Johns Hopkins faculty and staff are a notoriously innovative, curious, and extremely busy cohort. Yet in the midst of an ...

Libby Hikind, founder of GrantWatch and longtime educator, unveils her expanding collection of children's books now available through major retailers and libraries. BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., Dec. 12, 2025 ...

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Six months of author read-alouds, free literacy activities, book giveaways, and a nationwide challenge to read 100 books. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nerve-wracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, ...

Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

“He had to go fast, like an American, or he was all torpor. Half horse half alligator.” I hadn’t heard that Southern folkism, about indestructible men, before encountering it in the poet Charles Olson ...