The Iowa Department of Education will hand out 100,000 book packs — 1 million books in all — to first grade students this ...

The ‘1000 Books Before Kindergarten Program’ is free, and encourages early literacy skills by having parents read one thousand books with their children before they start kindergarten.

Hundreds of young children have completed the St. Louis Public Library's "1,000 Books Before Kindergarten" program since it ...

Ten kids graduated from the Maryville Public Library’s 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program. Two of the graduates are not ...

Nearly 38,000 first grade students in Iowa will receive literacy instruction books to take home and keep as part of a $3.5 ...

Of children going into kindergarten, 37% start without the necessary skills for learning, according to FerstReaders.org.

Experts have long considered reading the cornerstone of K-12 education. Besides helping practice literacy basics — letters, words, sentence structure — and helping shape school readiness, books can ...

He says research shows that the transition to kindergarten is easiest when kids start talking about it early and often. “This could be parents reading books about kindergarten to their kids or ...

All the books on the Book Bus are purchased new and are arranged by reading levels, ranging from kindergarten through fifth grade reading levels. How many times can I request a Book Bus visit?