“In schools today students are learning to read until third grade,” she said. “That’s the foundation and it’s so important.

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

Whether reading a book or listening to a recording, the goal is the same: understanding. But these activities aren’t exactly alike.

For some elementary school students, reading lessons are an opportunity to get messy and get out of their seats. Kids learning how to map letters to sounds might trace A’s and B’s in sand or shaving ...

TAYLORSVILLE, Utah — Kids sitting in front of screens, navigating the World Wide Web with the ease of someone more than quadruple their age. But imagine, they’re not just playing any game or ...

A Texas man is proving it’s never too late to learn how to read. The 66-year-old man recently started taking part in a ...

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 ...

Forget the dreaded Friday spelling test, and don't count on spell check to do the job. For too long, spelling has been ...

During slavery, reading wasn’t merely discouraged; it was often illegal. Enslaved people were denied the right to read because being literate allowed them to envision and demand freedom. The Bible, ...

“We have a science of reading,” Snow said. “But now, we need a science of teaching reading that is equally well-developed if ...