• 5 Techniques to Accelerate Your Child's Literacy - Kids who enjoy reading often read 2-3 books a week, the same as some children read in months. So the advantage they have is increasing all the time.

• Building Vocabulary - 5 Ideas for Increasing Your Child's Vocabulary While Running Errands - Want to help your child learn more words? Do you also want to keep them occupied while traveling to the grocery store, around town on errands, or even on vacation?

• Developing Fluency in Young Children by Nicole Brekelbaum - Fluency in reading and talking can come at different stages for different children. It is important when that milestone is reached that parents encourage their children to improve their literacy skills.

• English Language: Going Beyond Literacy to Total Mastery by Don Alexander - Language can embark upon the hidden talents of what all great writers have today: clarity, conciseness, and communication.

• Hand-eye coordination and visual discrimination key to literacy by Deanna Mascle - Hand-eye coordination is a necessary skill for written language and the best way to help your child develop this skill is to let them play with toys and activities that involve looking at, using, and discriminating a number of elements.

• How to raise a reader: Lessons in literacy by Deanna Mascle - You want to raise a reader. That much you know. But how? That's the $20,000 question. You could probably spend that $20,000 on how-to books for you, readers for your child, flash cards and other accessories, and specialized reading programs promoting every possible avenue to full literacy.

• Information Literacy And Your Child! by Abraham Varghese - One of the most frequently heard buzzwords in your child's school these days is "information literacy." What this means is that you're unlikely to find your child poring over the "Great Expectations" anthology you studied when you were in grade school.

• Learning the Alphabet - Is It Really as Easy as ABC ? by Barbara Freedman-De Vito - Learning the alphabet and learning to read must be a piece of cake, right ? If nearly every six year old can master it, then it must be simple ... or is it ?

• Literacy And Your Child -- Your Child's Life Can Be Ruined If They Can't Read Well by Joel Turtel - It may seem obvious to many people why literacy is so important in our technologically advanced society. However, many parents may not fully realize the emotional pain and life-long damage illiteracy can cause their children.

• One Step Beyond Literacy by George L. Rogers - The advantages of being able to read and write can hardly be overstated. Ideas are the most powerful things in the world and the written word is their sacred repository.

• Poor Writing Costs Big Bucks by Mary Anne Donovan - For those of us who have left English 101 behind a long time ago, it may come as a surprise to learn that poor writing is one of the biggest problems in business today. That's right, poor writing.

• Teaching Your Child How To Track Helps Early Literacy by Deanna Mascle - Developing tracking skills is key to your child's literacy development. Tracking in reading is the ability to follow a line of type across a page from left to right and from the top of the page to the bottom.

• The Importance Of Sharing Stories With Your Child by Sarah Taylor - All official research shows that the early years involve the highest rates of learning, and the habits formed at a young age will stay with them for a lifetime. It's therefore a perfect time to introduce children to books which educate and inform throughout life.

• What are Synthetic Phonics? by David Morgan - The current trend in literacy education is to move towards Synthetic Phonics. This is a quick overview of what that means.

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