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These pressed flower keepsakes introduce kids to flower science and encourage reading!

Mastering persuasive writing is a skill that takes practice. Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops!

Add some variety to your child's letter learning by making these darling sponge stamps together, great for different alphabet fun!

Sequencing is important to academic success and logical thinking. Make simple story cards and help develop that ability.

There's something about crowns that don't go out of style. Here's an easy way to make one, and build in some phonics practice!

Help your child make and plan a friend-filled story time party that will get her excited about reading.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

From a Twilight novel to required reading, he'll learn about preconceptions as he predicts a book's story based on the cover.

Make puppets and put them to work! Teach kids the importance of telling a story in order: beginning, middle and end.

If your child has a voracious appetite for reading she may be surprised to see how many books she's already devoured.

Using storybooks your child already knows introduce her to homonyms, those sound-alike words with different meanings.

Here's how to access everything your library has to offer.

Here are some expert techniques for encouraging kids to read.

Find out what you really need to support your emerging reader.