After 35 years as a preschool teacher, Carrie Dawn knows that young children love stories – especially when they are read aloud. Over the decades, she has watched hundreds of little ones widen ...

Reading bedtime stories is as important as changing diapers, but there’s a right way to do it. Research shows interactions such as reading and talking to your child can lead to a 30 million word ...

I am not surprised that “Kindergartners Arrive Less Ready for School Than Before Pandemic” (U.S. News, Jan. 13). As a former kindergarten and first-grade teacher who then spent 35 years preparing ...