Reading Difficulties

Growing Reader

Funny Early Readers Sure to Hook Kids Who Are Learning to Read

These books will get your child through the early reader stage with more than a few chuckles and belly laughs.

Tips & Advice

How to Get Back on the Reading Wagon

If you've fallen off the reading wagon, remember that it’s never too late to hop right back on. Here are five ways my family got back on track.

Growing Reader

8 Ways To Help Kids Understand What They Read

Now that your child is a more independent reader, you can use these reading comprehension strategies to help them understand what they read.

Tips & Advice

Reading at Home: 8 Things Your Kid’s Teacher Wishes You Would Do

I’ve asked my son’s teachers what we can do to encourage and support his reading. Here are a few tips and requests I’ve gotten from teachers along the way.

Tips & Advice

5 Ways Reading Matters to Kids’ Health

Reading and health go hand in hand throughout life. The road to becoming a happy reader and healthy kid starts at birth, and the benefits last a lifetime.

Growing Reader

Tween

When Mia Wouldn’t Read

Mia fessed up — she wasn’t really reading. She was telling her teacher she was reading at home, and telling her grandmother that she was reading at school.

Tips & Advice

Why I Help My Child with Writing Assignments (But You Shouldn’t)

As parents, should we be helping our kids with school reading and writing assignments? The answer isn't always so clear-cut, at least it isn't for me.

Tips & Advice

13 Reading Ideas for the Child Who Needs to Move

Sitting and reading? It’s SO HARD for some kids. Here's how to forgo sitting still and still get your little one to read.

Tween

In Defense of Gross-Out Fiction, or the (F)art of Storytelling

Let me be clear: I’m not here to prove that gross-out isn’t gross. It is gross. But it's also a great way to foster a love of reading in reluctant readers.