Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Many of their children can't even say the word "book" much less read one. But that isn't stopping dozens of stroller-pushing parents from bringing their pacifier-sucking babies to libraries all over ...

No milestone for a child entering school is more important to parents than being ready to read. But with so many learn-to-read activities and kits being sold, caregivers can become overwhelmed and ...