Reading on Schooling Frontier https://schooling-frontier.pages.dev/tags/reading/ Recent content in Reading on Schooling Frontier Hugo en Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0900 "My Child Is the Only One Whose Speech Is Late" — A 17-Year Follow-Up of Those Children https://schooling-frontier.pages.dev/posts/late-talkers-17-year-followup/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://schooling-frontier.pages.dev/posts/late-talkers-17-year-followup/ Leslie Rescorla followed 26 children who were late talkers at age 2 all the way to age 17. Every one of them ended up in the average range for adolescent language and reading — though they sat slightly below their same-SES peers who had not been late. Why a 10-Minute Bedtime Story Reaches All the Way to Middle-School Grades https://schooling-frontier.pages.dev/posts/bedtime-reading-predicts-middle-school-grades/ Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://schooling-frontier.pages.dev/posts/bedtime-reading-predicts-middle-school-grades/ A French team followed 664 children from kindergarten through middle school — about 10 years — and found that a language-based bedtime routine predicted middle-school exit-exam performance. The bridge across that gap was kindergarten-age vocabulary.