Andrew Polk, 26, teaches 10th-grade English in suburban Ohio, not far from where he grew up. As a high school student less ...

The ritual of bedtime reading is much more than just a routine: it's a moment of complicity, gentleness and discovery. Did ...

The benefits of reading with children are innumerable. Children who read with their caregivers report higher levels of reading comprehension, fluency and self-confidence. But do you know of its mental ...

Research by The Open University Reading for Pleasure consortia shows the advantages of reading for pleasure and the subsequent benefits for children, but is there evidence that children ...

Melania Trump did not appear to show any illustrations to a group of children as she read a Christmas picture book.

That was the response from a handful of K-12 teachers—1st grade classroom teachers, high school math teachers, and those in between—to this question posed by Education Week in a recent (unscientific) ...

Children who start to read for fun early in life get better test scores by the time they reach adolescence, according to a new study. Reading for pleasure by the age of nine is also linked to better ...

In October 2022, Mississippi reported some exhilarating news. After the state started using phonics to teach reading in 2013, its fourth-grade reading scores jumped from 49th to 29th in the nation, ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Yosadara Carbajal Salmerón was always a very involved parent, from the time her children were in Head Start. She would volunteer in the ...

Literacy rates are declining, screen time is increasing, and experts are sounding the alarm on the death of parents reading to their children. Though it is critical for their cognitive development, ...