New research highlights the importance of ensuring that students read at grade level before grade four. This is why reading at grade-level is a critical milestone on the Memphis City School’s Cradle to Career Roadmap.
Many children's advocates and service providers are familiar with the work of Ruby Payne, who focuses on understanding and working with students and adults from poverty. Dr.
A Memphis Challenge: Strengthen Early Family Literacy
Across Memphis and Shelby County, parents living in poverty are less likely to read to their children than are parents in poverty nationwide. Fortunately, even parents who struggle with reading can help their children become stronger readers and learners.
Imagination Library Designed to Build Family Literacy and School Readiness
When parents read to young children, when they themselves are readers, and when children learn the joys of reading with their parents, those children are more likely to develop rich vocabularies at an early age.
In her Psychology Today blog space, Brain-Sense, science writer Faith Brynie reviews recent research on early language development in infants. New findings suggest that babies are learning to receive and process language much