Teachers can use these strategies to entertain and engage early learners with reading and foster social and emotional skills.

In a survey of approximately 63 preschool, kindergarten, and elementary teachers, 50 to 70 percent of respondents acknowledged not allotting intentional planning time for their read-alouds.

“In kindergarten, we are working on identifying ... “I try to do at least one SEL read aloud a month for each class—and I only see them twice a month.” She feels this frequency is ...

As efforts toward developing strong readers go, reading aloud to children is one that ... these children entered kindergarten with exposure to around 1.4 million more words than children who ...

An article inReading Rockets, “Repeated Interactive Read-Alouds in Preschool and Kindergarten,” shows the importance of this enhanced reading with children: “Research has demonstrated that ...

The nation's largest pediatricians group is now formally urging parents to read aloud to their children ... than one in three American children start kindergarten without the skills they need ...

Studies have shown that families who start reading aloud to their children at birth ... tools when children begin learning to read in kindergarten. “I think early literacy is imperative to ...