5 Easy tips to help you take sharper, better, more professional-looking images of your child
At Easyread, we love seeing pictures of your children reading! As a professional photographer and parent, I know how meaningful those pictures can be. Today, I wanted to offer 5 simple tips to help you take sharp, beautiful, more professional-looking images of your children.
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3 reasons to start your own Little Lending Library (and how to do it!)
These “little free libraries” offer neighborhoods and families a chance to share their used books with others in the community. Here we provide three great reasons to start a little free library for your neighborhood, and we offer some suggestions for where you should look to learn how to build one of your own.
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Making sense of your child’s report card: an interview with US literacy expert, Sheri Nelson
For many of our families in the US, it’s report card season. If you grew up with the traditional report card, which listed your grades as A, B, C, D, or F, then you might be perplexed by the new grading systems.
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Why do some children read more than others? New research explains relationship between reading ability and print exposure
Some children read more than others. Is this because of their reading ability? Or is it the other way round, so the amount of text a child consumes determines their reading ability? I discuss new findings on the topic and what this means about how we should help strugglers.
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How to help your child make reading gains when school’s out for summer
“Learning loss” might be real—every summer, children likely do lose some of the hard-won skills they acquired during the school year. However, there are real, cost-effective ways you can help make the most of this summer so that your struggling reader finally gets ahead.
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Learning Through Praise: How Much Should I Praise My Child?
Despite the academic and cultural debates over praising children, here at Easyread we take a positive but nuanced view of praise as a real step toward learning to read.
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Embiggening Literacy Levels: 4 Things ‘The Simpsons’ Taught Us About Helping Children Learn To Read
It may seem unlikely, but we think all educators can learn a thing or two from The Simpsons about how to help a child develop their reading skills. Below are the four ways it resonates with the Easyread System.
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The ABCs of DOGs: children learning to read with dogs
Is there anything dogs can’t do? We can scratch “help children to read” off the list of answers to that rhetorical question now that libraries in Colorado have instituted an adorable program where children read aloud to dogs (cats can read for themselves, thank you).
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Why is there a “national crisis” in Australian literacy?
The changing nature of early childhood and low government funding have been targeted as likely causes of low literacy levels in Australia, but might the literacy toolset being given to Australian teachers be the real culprit?
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Literacy Projects Inspiring Us This Week
Imagine my surprise when – while browsing this week’s literacy news – I happened upon a video of Dolly Parton saying “Ay up mi duck”. The classic Midlands greeting seemed very odd coming from the mouth of the American country singer, but it soon transpired that it was all part of an endeavour to engage the people of Nottingham (UK) in her book gifting scheme, the Imagination Library.
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