The notebook collects what we write for reading and writing at home or in the classroom: how to build a story, spelling rules explained with examples, and traditions such as Halloween and the Day of the Dead. To start with stories, see how to make a story.
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Nobody reads in our house: what is actually measured
What predicts a child’s years of schooling is that books are present, independently of the schooling of whoever raises them. What to…
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Until what age to read aloud: there is a number
Until seventh or eighth grade, and there is a reason: all through elementary school, what they can read is capped by what…
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Reading games for kids: seven worth playing tonight
Seven word games with the age, the minutes and where to play each one, plus the one-line test that separates a game…
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A reading nook built from what’s already home
Three conditions that cost nothing, a one-line test, and a table of where the nook goes depending on your home. Including the…
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Headaches after reading: what to check about their eyes
The school chart measures sight at twenty feet. Reading happens at twelve inches. What that misses, what exam to ask for, and…
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Is this book too hard? Three things you can measure
The age on the back cover is a publishing convention. Three things you can measure with the book in your hands decide…
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Do audiobooks count as reading? Four formats
Graphic novel, picture book, audio or large print. What each format does, what the evidence says, and the one widely recommended without…
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How much reading time is actually enough?
Twenty minutes is the 90th percentile of a 1988 study. The full table, what reading time actually buys according to the evidence,…
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Reading together in five minutes, without the quiz
The way of reading together that has been measured moved oral language 19 percentile points. And it fits in five minutes. Here…
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They only read graphic novels: one number settles it
A comic has 53.5 rare words per thousand. A children’s book has 30.9. The full table, what reading panels actually does, and…
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They start books and stop: where they stop matters
Stopping on page ten and stopping halfway mean different things. The triage by where they stop, and the way out that works…
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Screens and reading: what 480,000 participants showed
Total screen time tracked no relationship with school performance. What did track was television and video games. So what is worth changing…