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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”.
Young girl shows spirit of giving
Young Rosie Solis of Ohio knows it is better to give than to receive. according to a news report by Julie O'Neill on WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. When planning for her 7th birthday party earlier this month, Rosie told her parents...
New teacher learns cursive, gets ready to learn more
The neat cursive script scrawled across the whiteboard in Caroline Mooren's fifth-grade classroom took time to perfect. As a resident teacher at Manor Heights Elementary in Casper, Wyoming, last spring, Mooren was teased by her third-grade students about her scribbly...
Pakistan still lags in literacy rate
Much greater consistency of initiatives is required if Pakistan is ever to improve its overall literacy rate, as this remains too huge a task to be fulfilled within the tenure of a single government, according to writer/researcher Syed Mohammad Ali....
Let misspellers off the hook, lecturer says
Most teachers expect to correct their students' spelling mistakes once in a while. But Ken Smith has had enough. The senior lecturer in criminology at Bucks New University in Buckinghamshire, England, sees so many misspellings in papers submitted by first-year...
Teachers plunge into cyberspace with their own Web pages
For more than 30 years, English teacher Carol Eubanks-Riccardi has prepared for the start of school by updating lesson plans, honing teaching skills and decorating her classroom. No matter where Eubanks-Riccardi has taught since 1977—across the country and overseas—the routine...
District gets districtwide program to teach reading
The school district of Eagle County, Colorado, is changing the way it teaches reading to elementary students this year. For the first time, every elementary school will be using a standardized, districtwide program to teach reading instead of their own,...
A link between test scores, English orthography?
Ghoti and tchoghs may not immediately strike readers as staples of the British diet; and even those most enamoured of written English’s idiosyncrasies may wince at this tendentious rendering of “fish and chips.” Yet the spelling, easily derived from other...
Literacy coaching: reading evolution, teaching revolution
East Stroudsburg University wants to help children become better readers—by helping their teachers get better at teaching them. This fall, ESU in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, is offering graduate courses in literacy coaching, which the faculty describes as a cutting-edge field....
Texas granted more time to decide on AYP
Some Texas parents will have to wait until October 8—more than six weeks after the first day of school—to find out whether their children are entitled to transfer to a higher-performing campus under No Child Left Behind. Parent advocates said...
Mother learns of literacy gap between U.S. and UK
That's my girl, I thought, as Olivia tore away from us to join the other 5-year-olds for circle time—legs crossed, hand stick-straight in the air in response to the teacher's question about how the kids spent Father's Day. My husband...
Home schooling on the rise among African Americans
For some, the term "home schooling" might evoke images of conservative Christian families or isolated rural areas. But according to the National Center for Education Studies, the number of African Americans being home schooled is growing. On National Public Radio,...
Teens failing to meet reading standards in England
Almost one in three 14-year-olds in England are failing to reach the standards expected of their age group in reading, Sats results have shown. Sats are national tests that assess student achievement. Boys are faring worse than girls when it...
School readiness report released
The report, "Parents' Reports of the School Readiness of Young Children from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2007," has been released by the National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences. Some findings: • Overall,...
Report examines assessment of young children
Growing interest in publicly funded programs for young children has drawn attention to whether and how Head Start and other early childhood programs should be asked to prove their worth. Congress asked the National Research Council for guidance on how...
Montana dips in adequate yearly progress goals
As report cards go, Montana's schools are in for a doozy later this month. Preliminary reviews of the state's No Child Left Behind test results show that 71% of the schools passed their adequate yearly progress threshold. Last year,...
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