• Supporting Your Child's Journey Toward Learning to Read: Part Two, The Kindergarten Child - "Phonological Awareness", "Phonemic Awareness" If you haven't heard these phrases before and you are the parent of a young child, you will! Although the latter refers to a slightly more advanced skill, in conversations, these are often used interchangeably.

• Supporting Your Child's Journey Toward Learning to Read: The Pre-School Child - Most parents do more than they realize to support their child's journey toward reading. In this article I hope to reinforce what you are already doing and add to a few more ideas to your repertoire with specific suggestions that go beyond the oft repeated: "Read to your child."

• The Power Of Independent Practice Reading by Laura Robb - The choices we teacher offer students, the diversity of texts in our classroom libraries, sharing these findings with students so they know the score and can make informed decisions about practice reading, and the amount of time students have for independent reading work together to build students' ability to concentrate on a wide variety of texts.

• To Read or Not to Read? by Gigi Reynard - Literacy and reading are of great interest to authors and publishers. Evidently, the topic caught the attention of The National Endowment for the Arts. They have just concluded a three year study on reading trends in the US. The study, entitled "To Read or Not to Read" was released earlier this month.

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