Each day has opportunities for natural reading. Be alert for them! Teach your children to be active readers in their surroundings. It gives them opportunities to interact with their environment. In addition to improving their reading skills, they will also be more connected to their community.

Do you have a young friend who likes to read, color, trace letters, and work paper puzzles? What do I mean by paper puzzles? Those would include mazes, word searches, and crossword puzzles. The "Harry the Happy Mouse Activity Book" has all of these activities, and it would be a perfect present.

Vocabulary lists are not always the most exciting homework your child can bring home. If the arrival of a weekly list of new words into your home is causing dismay and disgruntlement, fear not. You might just find my solution less dreadful. Let’s write a vocabulary story!

I got hooked on Blake Pierce when I got a free thriller from BookBub. For the past two weeks, I have been obsessed with these books and haven't wanted to read anything else. I'm on my 11th book! These books are labeled mystery, thriller, and psychological suspense. They are all of that, and more.

Cooking with your kids is a fun way to encourage them to get in some reading practice. Cooking allows children to read, work with fractions, and follow directions. It give families a chance to have special time together to do meaningful work. It's also a wonderful way to celebrate holidays!

Book reports are opportunities to dive beneath the surface reading of a book to get to the very heart of the text. They can be challenging to write, but they allow you to see a book in a new way. You can use your creativity to share your insights with an audience through your special book report.

Celebrate the lazy days of summer with a summer reading bag for each person in your family. This doesn't need to be expensive! Inexpensive gift bags from the dollar store with gently used books fill the bill nicely!

Support students in reading quality fiction that allows them to see how other people live. This helps readers to identify with them and to develop empathy. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor is an excellent choice to accomplish this.

These engaging books will let you and your child explore many topics together. The single largest predictor of academic achievement is whether parents read with their children every night. With this list, you have a lot of great new books to choose from.

The Association for Library Service for Children gets book recommendations from children living all over the United States. Then, they compile a list of great books for kids to read in the summer. Summer reading is important for kids to continue their educational progress.