As a halloween special, Storytime Madness featured one of our Halloween Books – Scary No More! Listen to the story on the link below.  

Distance learning made it harder for kids to stay engaged and up-to-date in STEM classes. Teachers need to look for new ways to motivate students to solve practice problems and retain theoretical concepts. Parents, too, tend to get stressed seeing their child struggling to grasp ideas in the classroom. To engage elementary and middle school …

Teaching kids to help others is vital for their development. In fact, it can benefit their personalities even more than the people around them. Why so? Let’s consider some reasons for that.  The purpose of helping others  First of all, by helping people that are less fortunate than them, kids can gain a more realistic …

Introduction According to numerous studies and official reports, it appears that school children read fewer books with every new generation. Modern-day cinema could have some influence on teenagers’ distancing from literature with more and more movies based on popular literature come out every year. Still, one American classic finds its way to young readers, especially …

Death and grief are things that children will experience sometime in their lives – it’s unfortunate, but we’ve all been there. However, losing a loved one can be a traumatic experience for children. So, how can parents and family members be able to talk to their children about death and grief? While we try our …

We can all agree that, when we were kids, we loved to read books, novels, and stories. Even though most of them have been just fairy tales, we enjoyed listening to and reading them. Of course, kids cannot know if the content of the book is a true picture of life or not. The most …

Reading is essential for the development of the mind and also to grow one’s vocabulary. So, we must make sure that the kids are readers from a tender age. Ideally, the more they read, the better they get at it. More reason they should read more. However, this isn’t always easy to accomplish, especially when …

Editors Picks for the Week – A selection of favourites – It’s sometimes hard to wade through the books, I wanted to use this blogspot to highlight a favourite in each reading category each week (or so…), to bring some of the older books to the front of the site again. Easy Reading – 5 …

It’s sometimes hard to wade through the books, I wanted to use this blogspot to highlight a favourite in each reading category each week, to bring some of the older books to the front of the site again. Easy Reading – 5 minutes or less stories for very young children, early readers and beginner English …

If you have an early reader, especially if they are a struggling reader, then there is help at hand, in the form of three letter stories! They are magic for struggling readers and can really turn around and improve a readers abilty in just a short time. If you feel you have plateaued with a …