A recent EdSource podcast asks: “Why do so many students struggle to learn to read?” An equally essential question is: Why were so many struggling readers improving before the pandemic? The ...

With a post-pandemic drop in North Carolina reading proficiency scores, it is all hands on deck to turn the situation around. One way educators and librarians are trying to do this is by nurturing a ...

DRACUT – Even though Breanna O'Toole of Dracut spends a lot of time reading with her young children, she worries about the impact of the COVID pandemic on their school readiness. Her kindergartener ...

Reading is "a powerful predictor of long-term success," says literacy advocate Maya Payne Smart. Here are five steps parents can take to raise an avid reader.

I have a special place in my heart for emerging readers. It is a uniquely magical moment, watching a child begin to grasp the fundamentals of reading, stumbling and struggling their way to becoming ...

At around the age of 7, independent readers will begin to delve into the world of chapter books. Most flock to early reader chapter books, the majority of which tend to be formulaic series with some ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Looking at public data, a report from the nonprofit, Reading RoadMap, Inc., found that rural school districts in Kansas experienced the greatest declines in early reading levels ...

Confronted by declining test scores and glaring achievement gaps, Governor Maura Healey is proposing to more than double the state’s current investment in teaching young students to read, according to ...

From the moment you’re expecting your first child, you are bombarded with messages about the importance of reading. For good reason: The benefits of reading at every stage of a child’s development are ...

The Johns Hopkins University's Sheridan Libraries, in partnership with University College London's Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) and the Princeton University Library, have been awarded a ...