Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books.

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National ...

Recent research shows that young children typically manipulate and rotate entire objects in their minds to understand ...

Our editor's tweens have read dozens of books on their Kindles over the years. After testing the new Amazon Kindle Kids ...

The Goshen College Education Department, in partnership with the Lilly Foundation, is pleased to announce that it will be holding a Science of Reading Summit on Nov. 7-8. The summit will include ...

Reading aloud is a wonderful way to build a love of stories and language. But listening to books does not, on its own, teach most children how to read. Only about 5 percent of students will learn to ...

In a new book, researcher Timothy Shanahan argues that giving students easy texts is holding back US reading achievement ...

Why are so few kids reading for pleasure? A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher ...

One author has been credited with creating the virtuous teenagers’ thrilling adventures for almost a century. But there’s a ...