Today, 5 February, is World Read Aloud Day (WRAD). The Publishers' Association of South Africa (PASA) and Nal'ibali, South Africa's reading-for-enjoyment campaign, invite you to help spread a love of ...

Parents and teachers often stop reading aloud to children as they get older and can read on their own. But reading aloud actually helps students with fluency and vocabulary and boosts their own ...

Any successful public speaking is meant to be eloquent. Its realization is very often the result of several exercises. Among these exercises, reading aloud is a very old practice whose origin lies in ...

Reading aloud with kids is a great way to introduce STEM language into their vocabulary! Reading aloud with kids is a great way to introduce STEM language into their vocabulary! Science isn’t often ...

This is a replay of Education Week’s webinar, “New Strategies for Reading Aloud to K-2 Students.” The old-fashioned classroom K-2 read-aloud is changing. For decades, these cozy gatherings have ...

Everyone loves a good story. Infant, child or adult, we all enjoy tales that entertain us, teach us about the world, and connect us with others. This is why so many children — including big kids — ...

Is reading to your kids a bedtime ritual in your home? For many of us, it will be a visceral memory of our own childhoods. Or of the time raising now grown-up children. Perhaps it involves a nightly ...

Ryan Spencer is the ACT State Director of the Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA). As parents know all too well, children love to re-read their favourite books over and over again. While ...

I almost didn’t recognize her. With flat-ironed hair and makeup, Madeline did not look like the gangly sixth grader with frizzy red hair who I remembered from my class four years ago. “Hi Mrs. Miller, ...

Guiding students to infer the meaning of a word from a set of images may be more powerful than providing a definition. Vocabulary is crucial to reading comprehension, but it can be hard to ...