Posts Tagged ‘ASL’

Last night, as I walked up the stairs to get my just-turned-six little monkey ready for bed, my footsteps quietened and then stood still as I heard him reading aloud to his puppets. He had chosen a wonderful book (and quite aptly titled) from his bookshelf – Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett. He has […]

We have often heard about research that shows children having a better chance of becoming fully literate adults if reading is encouraged from an early age.   But what happens when the parent cannot read English?  Are these statistics based on English-literate families only? I recently heard a comment from a parent who would love […]