Remember Barbara Bush By Reading to Your Kids

The message former First Lady Barbara Bush helped spread to parents still holds true today: Read to your kids. Lisa Brady reports in this week’s Fox on Family.

Linda Katz retired from the Children’s Literacy Initiative and is now Executive Director Emeritus. She says the group focuses more broadly on working with teachers to help them improve reading instruction. Katz says it’s a nationwide problem that money and time aren’t devoted to this kind of teacher training, given the importance of achieving functional literacy for success in school, getting a job and being productive in the economy. About one out of five children in urban or low income areas aren’t able to read at grade level by the end of third grade. You can find the Children’s Literacy Initiative at CLI.org.