• 7 Tips on How to Make The Most of Your Child's Reading Time by Wayne Gillie - Reading to a child is such a tremendous help in getting him or her off to a flying start with reading, and in just 10 minutes a day parents can be super effective in preparing their children for literacy success.

• Better Reading Fluency Results In Better Comprehension by Paul Counts - Reading fluency is the ability to read quickly and accurately. A person with good reading fluency is able to comprehend more because they instantly group and recognize words.

• Five Stages Of Reading Development by Pamela Beers, M.S. Ed. - Learning to read doesn't just happen. It has to be taught through systematic, organized instruction. Reading is a skill which is built upon through stages and is an ongoing process.

• Five Vital Keys to Teach Kids to Read by Wayne Gillie - Reading is an absolutely vital skill that we all need to function effectively in today's society. Whilst it is pleasing that most children develop into good readers, there are also far too many who struggle to become competent in this crucial skill.

• Helping Your Child Learn to Read - 12 to 24 months by Celia Webb - What skills can you teach your child when he is only 12 months old which will impact his reading and writing skills? There are actually a number of connections the child's brain will complete in this year which are important to his acquisition of language skills.

• Helping Your Child Learn to Read - 24 to 36 months by Celia Webb - During the time from 24 to 36 months, your child is starting to blossom. Exploration of the larger world and how it works becomes a focus of attention.

• Helping Your Child Learn to Read - Up to Age 1 by Celia Webb - As a parent, you play many roles in your child's life. The caretaker and protector roles are certainly important, but another role parents fulfill is teacher.

• Learn to Read #1: Facts and Myths for Parents by Janet Twyman Ph.D - We all agree that "Read to Succeed" is more than a marketing slogan. It is truth in today's globally competitive world for our children. Yet we as parents still suffer from learning to read myths, perhaps passed on from our parents, perhaps propagated by society.

• Learning To Read: Is Rhyme Important? by Deanna Mascle - Learning to read is one of the toughest and most important tasks a young child faces. A child's successful accomplishment of this feat is one of the strongest indicators of future success--and a child's struggle with reading is one of the strongest indicators of future failure.

• Parents --- Do You Want Dumb, Non-Reading Children? Keep Them In Public School - To teach children how to play the piano, you have to teach them the basics of music — keys, notes, chords, melody, and harmony. With these tools learned, your kids can experience the joy and sense of accomplishment from playing their favorite songs on the piano.

• Preparing your child cognitively to read by Deanna Mascle - The ultimate goal of reading instruction is to enable children to understand what they read, so reading instruction has to be about more than simply matching letters and sounds -- it also has to be about connecting words and meaning.

• Reading, Your Key To Technology by Sean Caruthers - We live in a great day and age. Information is readily available at all times. We have cable TV, radio, computer applications and the Internet. We're experiencing information overload most of the time.

• Ready, Set, Read: Specific activities to make your child a reader! by Deanna Mascle - Providing positive, enjoyable literacy experiences give young children opportunities to gain the knowledge, awareness, skills, and love of learning that they need to later learn to read independently. Here are 8 ways you can provide those experiences.

• Scholastic Benefits of Reading to Children by Grant Eckert - The experts all agree - reading to your children is one of the most important things you can do to foster their love of learning. Children whose parents read to them are more successful in school.

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