Joyelle Tunstall created the "Read with Joy" series to help her daughter learn to read, while also including diverse ...

In most states, schools are required to screen students as they enter kindergarten—a process that is meant to identify students who may need extra help learning to read. However, a new study by MIT ...

“Do we need to read, or can we just get everything through audio, like podcasts and audiobooks?” – Sebastian L., 15, Skanderborg, Denmark Let’s start with a thought experiment: Close your eyes and ...

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Reading is an essential life skill that predicts success on many levels later in life. There is clear evidence demonstrating that young people who do not learn to read proficiently are more likely to ...

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 ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Parents often tell their children to sound out the words as they are learning to read. It makes sense: Since they already ...

Between kindergarten and second grade, much of the school day is dedicated to helping our youngest students master phonics, syllabication, and letter-sound correspondence–the essential building blocks ...

New literacy campaigns, such as Turn on the Subtitles, have pointed to TV as a way to entice children to read, through same-language subtitles. However, research from Britain suggests that children ...