How to Grow a Book Garden
Just like you can grow a vegetable garden, you can grow a Book Garden…that yields a “crop” of books that is continually refreshed.
The Gift of Literacy
Gifting a book that is well suited to its recipient is natural for book-loving adults to do…Children can benefit from watching us select a special book and learning our motive behind the gift.
Learning to Read is Like Learning to Ride a Bike
Learning to read is like learning to ride a bicycle. It’s motivated by seeing others do it and having fun.
How Narrations Make a Difference
Book narrations by native speakers have a lasting and wonderful impact for children living everywhere in the world.
Diversity is Valuable and Relevant
Parents and teachers can address diversity through books that offer culturally relevant content and perspectives different from our own.
Poverty and Potential Can Co-Exist
Through the power of technology, it’s positively, potentially possible to turn impoverished book deserts into book gardens and grow avid lifelong readers everywhere.
Motivation for Learning to Read and Write
The hardest lessons for teachers or parents to pull off are those for which they fail to generate an emotional fire of interest in their students or kids…
Use Precious Moments to Boost Reading Fitness
Taking a few precious moments to read with children whenever possible can accumulate into a sizable boost in learning outcomes.
Who are Multicultural Children’s Books For, Anyway?
Culturally diverse books provide kids with opportunities to read and learn about children and life in homes unlike their own.
Grow Readers by Planting Book Gardens
Seeds, and books, are packed with potential; planting them carries an inherent message of hope.
What Counts in Early Reading
There are measurable steps that families, preschool educators, and childcare professionals can take to help ensure children’s early reading success prior to Kindergarten. And the trek must begin long before the first day of Kindergarten…
A Digital Library for Young Readers and Language Learners
Digital books with narrations in indigenous languages can support young readers.
Danish Students Learn English While Narrating Books
Read about how one primary grade teacher leads his his young students in translating simple Unite for Literacy picture books from English into their native Danish language.
Picture Book Abundance
Our team chose “Picture Book Abundance” as a motto because it captures our vision--to offer children around the world an ample supply of culturally relevant books.
Books Can Take You Places
Provide children universal access to places and wonders of the world by creating books that picture and discuss them.
How to Help Children Become Avid Readers
Calm and sincere support can leave a new reader feeling the possibility that reading anything can be a rewarding or delightful adventure…
Let’s Talk About YOU
Successful parents and teachers invite each child’s contribution when discussing books either using their name or the word “you.”
Successful Futures are Assured Through Literacy
Lifelong literacy should be the ultimate academic goal of education rather than currently popular career or college readiness.
Seeing What We Mean
Our genius techies here at Unite for Literacy figured out how to make it possible to share our picture books with children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.