In a village library in Karnataka, a librarian opens a picture book and starts to read. She changes her voice for each ...

Reading aloud is useful not just with kids, but many friends and romantic partners also like being read to. Even at work, if you read aloud well, it can be engaging. Here, I offer tips on how to read ...

Wondering from what age you should start reading aloudFrom what age should you start reading picture books aloud? Many ...

In this video I share my favorite way to make classroom read alouds feel truly magical. I show how I use the Novel Effect app with picture books like We Don’t Eat Our Classmates and other back to ...

Study after study confirms that reading aloud to your kids has numerous benefits. We know that it promotes language development and listening skills. It introduces new vocabulary, and teaches them ...

For many educators today, introducing race into curricula is a fraught proposition. So how do teachers—tasked with new learning imperatives—even begin to introduce the subject to young children?

Is reading to your kids a bedtime ritual in your home? For many of us, it will be a visceral memory of our own childhoods. Or of the time raising now grown-up children. Perhaps it involves a nightly ...

Husband and wife entrepreneurs Matt and Melissa Hammersley have been helping parents and educators delight in reading aloud to children for more than a decade. From their innovative app Novel Effect, ...

When you read aloud to children, they learn how to distinguish different sounds and words. This helps them build their vocabulary and understand how words are pronounced. When children hear stories ...