Early literacy
6 articles
Reading as a Play Activity for Young Children: How to Make Story Time Work
Reading to young children is the activity every parenting source recommends, and one of the few where the evidence is genuinely strong. What gets less...
Singing and Nursery Rhymes: Why They Matter
The fastest, cheapest, and best-evidenced thing you can do to set a child up for reading is sing nursery rhymes with them, regularly, for years. It pr...
Reading as a Play Activity for Young Children
The single highest-return parenting investment in language development is reading aloud — not flashcards, not "educational" apps, not enrichment class...
Drawing and Its Role in Early Development
Drawing is one of the most important activities for young children's development, yet many parents underestimate its significance. From the earliest s...
How to Encourage a Love of Books From Birth
Most of the parenting advice on raising a reader makes it sound complicated. It is not. Three habits do most of the work: reading aloud most days, kee...
Reading Aloud to Babies and Toddlers: Why It Matters and How to Do It
Shared book reading is one of the most consistently recommended activities in early childhood, and one of the few where the evidence is genuinely robu...