When Reading a Book Isn’t Reading the Words
Hearing a book read aloud in a language they know exposes children to what fluent reading sounds like, helping to engage them in learning to read…
How Parents Can Help Kids Plug In to Good Reads, Rest, and Play
Research and data helps support the principles we stand on here at Unite for Literacy.
Digital Libraries are Like Love
Like love, which is utterly fulfilling and limitless, there is no downside to digital libraries and to the books they freely provide for us all.
The Optimum Number of Books
One hundred (100) is the optimum number of books in a young child’s home relative to them growing up to be a proficient, avid reader.
Early Literacy Must Not Wait for Preschool Enrollment
Preschool includes early literacy “lessons,” but take a small step back from that and it becomes immediately clear that it is not early enough.
Teaching Children to Choose
One of the challenges for children in growing from emergent readers into lifelong, avid, joyful readers is figuring out how to find books they will love when there are so many from which to choose.
How to Grow a Book Garden
Just like you can grow a vegetable garden, you can grow a Book Garden…that yields a “crop” of books that is continually refreshed.
The Gift of Literacy
Gifting a book that is well suited to its recipient is natural for book-loving adults to do…Children can benefit from watching us select a special book and learning our motive behind the gift.
Learning to Read is Like Learning to Ride a Bike
Learning to read is like learning to ride a bicycle. It’s motivated by seeing others do it and having fun.
How Narrations Make a Difference
Book narrations by native speakers have a lasting and wonderful impact for children living everywhere in the world.
Diversity is Valuable and Relevant
Parents and teachers can address diversity through books that offer culturally relevant content and perspectives different from our own.
Poverty and Potential Can Co-Exist
Through the power of technology, it’s positively, potentially possible to turn impoverished book deserts into book gardens and grow avid lifelong readers everywhere.
Motivation for Learning to Read and Write
The hardest lessons for teachers or parents to pull off are those for which they fail to generate an emotional fire of interest in their students or kids…
Use Precious Moments to Boost Reading Fitness
Taking a few precious moments to read with children whenever possible can accumulate into a sizable boost in learning outcomes.
Who are Multicultural Children’s Books For, Anyway?
Culturally diverse books provide kids with opportunities to read and learn about children and life in homes unlike their own.
Grow Readers by Planting Book Gardens
Seeds, and books, are packed with potential; planting them carries an inherent message of hope.
What Counts in Early Reading
There are measurable steps that families, preschool educators, and childcare professionals can take to help ensure children’s early reading success prior to Kindergarten. And the trek must begin long before the first day of Kindergarten…
A Digital Library for Young Readers and Language Learners
Digital books with narrations in indigenous languages can support young readers.
Danish Students Learn English While Narrating Books
Read about how one primary grade teacher leads his his young students in translating simple Unite for Literacy picture books from English into their native Danish language.
Picture Book Abundance
Our team chose “Picture Book Abundance” as a motto because it captures our vision--to offer children around the world an ample supply of culturally relevant books.