For some young children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don’t start in the kindergarten classroom — they happen first in the doctor’s office.

How well is your child reading? Does your second-grader know how to decode (or sound out) words like flavor, question, monumental and knowledge? Is your third- or fourth-grader learning history, ...

Founded in 2017, Ballet & Books aims to reduce the literacy gap through a “hybrid storytelling of dance and reading,” according to founder and executive director Talia Bailes, also a fourth-year ...

Young children's physical and mental development, including motor and social skills, are positively impacted if their parents ...

Canadian kids are spending more time on screens and far less time playing—throwing a ball or jumping around—and that's creating a big public health problem. Not only are they missing out on better ...

Children who spend time learning outside may reap benefits physically, academically, and emotionally, according to a Texas ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- "Literacy for Life: A Protect Our Children Special Presentation," hosted by Shirleen Allicot, focuses on the importance of teaching children to read and write and how illiteracy can ...

As our education systems move from scrambling to adapt to school closures and distance learning towards something approaching normality, many are asking questions about how to recover what was lost.

BOOKS IN THEIR HOME THIS WEEKEND, THANKS TO THE EVENT LITERACY IS KEY. YESTERDAY, THERE WAS A BIG BOOK GIVEAWAY AT RAINBOW PARK ON MLK JUNIOR BOULEVARD AND 41ST STREET. YOU CAN SEE DOZENS OF FAMILIES ...

Why is a book like this needed? A devastatingly large number of people in America cannot read as well as they need to for success in life. Large numbers of school-age children, including children from ...

An 18-year-old graduate of Hartford Public High School is suing the school district, claiming the district never taught her to read or write. As a student with a disability, she claims she was ...

A 2023 report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) highlights this pressing issue, revealing that 75 percent of Nigerian children aged seven to 14 cannot read simple sentences. This gap in ...