A mother and her tween daughter are browsing titles in a locally owned independent bookstore. The young girl is perusing the extraordinary Newbery Honor–winning memoir-in-verse Brown Girl Dreaming by ...

Read Aloud feature is a useful function that allows an application or device to speak out text aloud in a synthetic voice. If you want to read aloud text in the Google Chrome browser, this tutorial ...

As schools continue in virtual and hybrid capacities because of the pandemic, parents and teachers are in search of ways to make up for lost learning time and prevent the inevitable COVID slide.

Continuing our series on Read Alouds That Rock, we asked a number of literacy experts to share their strategies for integrating nonfiction storytimes in their work with young readers. Click here to ...

Reading aloud isn’t just for little kids—it’s a powerful tool for building fluency, comprehension, and a lifelong love of books. With the right strategies, teachers can turn story time into an ...

“Go pick your bedtime book, right now,” I told my four-year-old. Afternoon meltdowns had turned into bedtime battles, and I was tired. He returned clutching the book Glad Monster, Sad Monster and ...

Reading aloud is useful not just with kids, but many friends and romantic partners also like being read to. Even at work, if you read aloud well, it can be engaging. Here, I offer tips on how to read ...

I almost didn’t recognize her. With flat-ironed hair and makeup, Madeline did not look like the gangly sixth grader with frizzy red hair who I remembered from my class four years ago. “Hi Mrs. Miller, ...

Continuing our series on Read Alouds That Rock, we shine a light on the silliest of storytimes. Click here to see our previous stories. At this very moment, countless teachers and librarians are ...