Story time is a highlight of the day for many young students, and teachers can boost engagement even further by adding costumes and sound effects.

Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some are incapable of even comprehending full sentences — forcing professors to start reading to them aloud in class, ...

Kai Cenat, a popular Twitch streamer, is inspiring Black schoolchildren to read by reading aloud on camera every day. His example is setting a powerful precedent for improving literacy rates.

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

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Ohio plans to reduce a nearly two-mile stretch of Reading Road from four lanes to two with a center turn lane. The $3.9 million "road diet" project aims to slow traffic through the city of Reading and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A friend sent a meme to a group chat last week that, like many internet memes before it, managed to implant ...

Rick Lash is a Toronto-based psychologist and management consultant writing on leadership, psychology, and culture. “Most of our students are functionally illiterate. This is not a joke.” That line, ...

A short, family-friendly bedtime reading routine helped young children grow in cognitive empathy and creativity, and simple pauses to reflect gave imagination an extra lift. Study: Keep the bedtime ...

I was 25-years-old and living in New York City. I had just finished my first novel, set to dip my toes into the literary world for the first time. Then, I spilled water on my computer, and lost the ...