Bring Back Bedtime Stories: How to Carve Out the Quiet Time that’s Been Lost in the Noise of Everyday Life

Bring back bedtime stories: How to carve out the quiet time that’s been lost in the noise of everyday life

Bedtime stories are slipping away. Recent UK literacy surveys have shown a clear drop in how often young children are read to at home.

How I Can Read became a force for early literacy

Thirty years ago, two Australian child psychologists, writer Annabel Seargeant and school principal Anthony Earnshaw, created a learning program with a deceptively simple goal: to make young children proficient readers. That program, I Can Read, has since evolved from a local concept into an international success. The foundation of I Can Read is a phonetics-based system designed to develop independent reading skills at an early age. When the pai…