Kindergartners who are 5- and 6-year-old beginning readers need to read nonfiction books as well as fiction books. They’ll practice different comprehension skills & learn how to read for information.

Fry bread is shape (“flat like a pancake/round like a ball”); fry bread is sound (“the bubbles sizzle and pop”); fry bread is color (“deep like coffee, sienna or earth”). In Maillard’s generous and ...

Anxiety, making new friends, learning to share: These nine titles will prepare young readers for whatever their first day of school may have in store. By Travis Jonker Travis Jonker is a children’s ...

The first day of kindergarten is a big milestone for kids and their grown-ups alike. It’s a time full of excitement, curiosity and plenty of butterflies in the stomach. One of the best ways to help ...

Growing up, my mom and dad read me a picture book the night before I started each new school year. When bedtime came, I would curl up in bed next to my parents—and my dog—and listen intently as they ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - In a kindergarten classroom at Riverside Elementary in Sioux City, students are practicing sight words, but learning to read starts long before kindergarten. “Research says that ...

WILLIAMSTON, NC (WNCT) — Kindergarten students at Martin County Schools on Tuesday were each given an “I Like Me” book that was personalized to them. Their names, teacher’s names, grade, friends, ...

ABILENE, Texas — The Main Abilene Library has a nationally recognized initiative, 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten, to help promote learning in children before they reach kindergarten. The mother of ...

Three-year-old Zhuri Vazquez noticed leaves of so many different colors falling this past autumn. And for the first time in her young life, she knows why the leaves fall. “I get a lot of autumn books, ...