"We give a lot of lip service to the idea that we're creating lifelong readers in the classroom, but we aren't being intentional about it," says Donalyn Miller, author of the soon-to-debut Reading in the Wild.
Finding the perfect book at the appropriate reading level can be overwhelming for many parents. The new Book Fairs app is designed to provide parents with valuable details on books, including appropriate age, grade and reading levels, to help guide them in finding the "right fit" book.
Seventy percent: That's the amount of time students spend at home. Educators strive constantly to repair the disconnect between parents and schools, recognizing that partnership is crucial if we expect children to succeed. Here's how to do it and why it matters so much.
Perseverance paid off for the fiction and nonfiction winners of the 2013 Kids Are Authors™ competition, both of whom used previous winning entries - including some of their own - to inspire their current students to see themselves as authors as well. Their secret weapon: classroom libraries.
Kids representing all 50 U.S. states and 30 countries read and logged 176,438,473 minutes as part of the 2013 Scholastic Summer Challenge, a free program designed to keep students reading throughout the summer months. Some of the remarkable results: Non-readers became readers, and a rural school with only 96 students managed to rank in the Top 20.