BOOKS (READING

Parenting involves reading your children books. Here is a list of 10 of my favorite read-aloud books. Checking out endless books at your local library, and read to your children until they can't stand it anymore (it will be a long time).

If you're a leader of a school group or another organization geared towards kids, why not consider hosting a Reach for the Stars Usborne reading challenge? Help increase literacy and make the community aware of the importance of reading.

I love reading to my daughter, but these books are absolute torture to read.

Recreational reading of great literature still has a role even in a technologically advanced society. Students need to access great minds from other times and cultures. They also need models of excellent writing so they can learn to write themselves.

It's summertime and school has ended but learning doesn't have to. Are you looking for a fun, yet interesting summer reading list? Well, here is a list of my favorites. Enjoy!

Opinion piece on whether reading books or seeing movies is more entertaining.

Reading Rainbow is another PBS children's show that is being taken off the air. Reading Rainbow is being canceled after lack of funding from corporations, The Department of Education, and PBS.

Schools misrepresent the purpose of summer reading lists as a way to get students ahead and to keep them busy while there are no classes to attend. What is the real reason?

With the rising cost of living and pay checks that stay at a stand still, money for non essentials is getting scarce. As an avid reader on a budget, it is getting harder for me to justify spending $18.95 and up on a book.

This article shows parents how to help your child succeed in state book award quiz bowl competitions such as Battle of the Books. It includes tips on finding the books and preparing for the competition.

Valuable books lurking in attics? Finding them is the job of book scouts, people who professionally search for rare, valuable or collectible books. With book collecting growing as a hobby, now is the time to take up book scouting.

My ADHD son created a book club which led to an improvement in his irregular speech patterns associated with puberty.

My ADHD son created a book club which led to an improvement in his irregular speech patterns associated with puberty.

Books. Reading. The simplest of human expression, or sometimes the most complex. A true gem of our species and yet, is it being supplanted by movies and TV?

Some great ideas to open the world of literature to your little one.

Some easy games and things I did to help my reluctant reader love to read.

Books are so very expensive these days but you can find cheap books - even free books - if you just know where to look.

Children learn to read in first grade with often a "refresher course" of sorts in the second grade. An increasing number of parents, however, are choosing to give children a head start with a love of reading that begins during the kindergarten year or ev