Is listening a more optimal way of learning than reading a book? Do audiobooks improve young learners’ reading comprehension ...

Tazewell County fourth grade students recently went on a journey that took them from the streets of London to the fictitious New World settlement of James Town, Virginia. Richlands ...

Kindergartners who got a literacy curriculum grounded in science topics had better reading comprehension than peers who got the standard approach focusing on general comprehension skills, according to ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...

A federally funded literacy grant program has reportedly boosted the literacy of participating students across D.C. public ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

In April 2024, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made a bold promise: The state would revamp its approach to literacy and boost ...

Will there ever be another Harry Potter? Between 1997 and 2007, it seemed like every child (and even their parents) was reading J.K. Rowling’s timeless fantasy novels about a skinny, bespectacled ...

As new technologies rapidly expand, experts say learners and educators alike need to focus on literacy all the more.