Literacy is one of the most important skills for children to learn, but many are falling behind. A 2023 study found that ...

To figure out the best way to help your kindergartner prepare for school during the summer, we consulted our baby and child ...

Children’s Book Week is celebrated May 5 – 11. As a nation and as parents, let’s use this week to help our kids fall in love with reading again. Children’s Book Week is a perfect time to put down the ...

At a time when rates of reading for pleasure are down nationwide and policymakers are beginning to brainstorm ways to help ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Rather than hindering or holding back reading skills, reading graphic novels can actually help develop them. Reading is many things—from breaking the code to understand what you read, to reading for ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...