As an avid reader and book lover, you may have books you have read and won’t read again. You might also be overflowing with books you will never read, or have recently cleaned out your child’s bookcase. This article shares ideas about rehoming your treasured books.

Reading with expression can bring words to life. It doesn't matter if you are reading silently to yourself, or reading aloud. You can learn and use this practice, as well as share it with new readers.

If you’ve ever thought of writing a book, it may help you to read, and then read more. This article will tell you WHY reading is important to your own writing, and WHAT you can read.

Let's read aloud. I have a suggestion for you. Author Joanna Walsh and illustrator, Judi Abbot, have created a great read aloud book about hugs. This book is filled with colorful pictures and advice on giving the perfect hug, and finding the perfect hugger!

Here is a description of the vowel-consonant-e syllable. Included are tips for teaching the VCE syllable, also known as the magic e syllable.

When teaching reading or spelling, the closed syllable is the first syllable type you should teach a beginning or remedial student. It is the most common syllable type and the easiest for students to learn. Here are tips for teaching the closed syllable type.

Open syllables are one of the six syllable types. After teaching closed syllables, open syllables are the next type to teach to beginning and remedial readers and spellers.

Lists of common vowel digraphs and activities for teaching them to young readers.

Vacations and school breaks are a great time to read. Let's create our own reading challenge this summer and choose our books by their covers. Don’t worry, I leave most of the rule making up to you. This article is simply a guideline you can use to create a unique and fun reading list.

Teach the six common syllable patterns to build reading and spelling skills for beginning readers as well as older readers who find reading and writing multisyllabic words challenging.