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Improve Reading Comprehension

Help your child improve this crucial skill.

5 Easy Skills to Teach During Read-Alouds

Try these tips for enriching your young child's reading experience.

Reading and Writing 101

What parents should know about the Common Core State Standards

Our Elementary School Guide

What your child will be learning in each grade from PreK through 5

Raise a Reader

Get strategies to boost your child's reading time.

10 Ways to Motivate Your Child to Learn

Inspire a thirst for knowledge.

Homework: to Help or Not to Help

On resisting the urge to complete a child's assignments

Common Core Math Explained

Why the Common Core makes simple Math more complicated

Want your kids to read? Don't offer a reward.

A researcher offers sneaky ways to get your kids reading this summer.

Create a Math Library at Home

Help your child see Math as more than just numbers.

The Common Core Essentials

Five things to read if you're starting from scratch

Understanding the Key Shifts in Math Instruction

A parent and math consultant tells you what you need to know.

Making Math Facts Fun

Activities to reinforce math skills at home

Honoring Black History

A book list for students of all ages

What Are Insects?

A curated list of read-alouds accompanies this guidebook with activities.

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Children and Trauma

A new approach to helping children who live with "toxic stress"

Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge™

Keep your children "reading under the stars" all summer long.

Maurice Sendak in His Own Words

The renowned writer and illustrator on childhood, art and life

Common Core Assessments

What the new assessments will mean for your child

"The Fine Black Line"

A conversation with author Andrea Davis Pinkney about her life and work

What Does a Good Preschool Classroom Look Like

A Q&A with the head of Bank Street Head Start in New York City

State Teachers of the Year Survey

The 2015 Teachers of the Year weigh in on independent reading.

English Class in the Common Core Era

Fiction and nonfiction pairings are now more common in ELA classrooms.

The Benefits of Bedtime Stories

New studies highlight the importance of reading to children from birth.

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