Helping kids find books that match their interests can spark a genuine love for reading. Modeling a love of reading and ...

Children learn to read when reading becomes, to them, a means to some valued end or ends. There's an old joke, which I recall first hearing several decades ago, about a child who reached age 5 without ...

As a former English teacher with a background in literacy education, I’ve seen how imperative it is that kids have a solid reading foundation. At the same time, as a mom to three young kids, I feel ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

Most parents struggle to get their children interested in reading. Recently, evidence has emerged suggesting that audiobooks may be a solution, helping boost kids’ interest and comprehension.

Fewer children in the UK are growing up with a love of books. The aim of the campaign is to meet people where they are and encourage them to read about what they’re already interested in. For parents ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...