Discover how early literacy activities like reading, storytelling, and book sharing can shape your child’s success from preschool through high school. Learn why starting early matters — and how simple, everyday interactions can build a lifelong love of learning.

Does your child know how to identify the main elements of a story? Understanding a story’s structure (its Characters, Setting, Problem, Actions and Resolution) is an important part of story comprehension – a skill your child will need for literacy success. Here are some tips for helping your child learn about story structure with the fun book, Bob, Not Bob!

Helping children predict what will happen next in a story is a great way to engage them in interactive book reading, as well as to deepen their story comprehension – a key early literacy skill. Here are some tips to help children make predictions with the beautiful children’s book, Julie and the Mango Tree.

An effective way to deepen your child’s understanding of a story is to encourage them to make judgments and form opinions about the events that take place. Here are some tips to help your child evaluate a story with the fun book, The most Magnificent Thing. 

One way to help your child understand what you read is to talk about why certain things happen in the book, or why characters do certain things. This often means talking about characters’ emotions or motivations, and talking about “cause and effect”, or how one event leads to another.

Bear might be scared of a lot of things, but is it possible he’s braver than he thought? Come along for the fun as we share strategies for helping children learn about story structure with this charming book.

Did you know that engaging your child in a conversation about a story greatly increases the likelihood they’ll understand it? Read on for some tips to turn book reading into a conversation with the fun book, Not a Box.

One of the best ways to build your child’s understanding of stories is to relate what’s happening in the book to things your child already knows or has experienced. Come along for the ride as we look at this fun book about a Grandma with thirty grandchildren and learn some tips for building your child’s comprehension.

When you encourage perspective-taking during book reading, you not only deepen your child’s understanding of the story, but also build the skills that help them understand why the people in their own lives act or respond the way they do. Use the tips in this Book Nook to spark conversations about how we all see and experience the world differently.