According to a Gallup survey from 2022, Americans are reading fewer books per year than ever before. And the time that people spend reading has dropped over the years, too.

People with more knowledge tend to be better readers. That’s not proof that increasing knowledge improves reading. It could be that higher achieving kids like learning about the world and enjoy ...

"If nearly a third of soon-to-be high school freshmen can’t successfully find an author’s primary message, the American K-12 ...

In the Fort Worth Independent School District and across Texas, conversations about literacy instruction have largely focused ...

The science behind reading quirks As the daughter of a librarian, I grew up surrounded by books. My mother was the librarian ...

At Goshen’s Chamberlain Elementary, the first graders are working on phonics and comprehension. They just got some help from ...

John Parent sat in the kindergarten classroom in wonderment as he saw the “science of reading” paying off in October 2023.

Research suggests that this traditional habit is more than just a pastime—it can significantly benefit cognitive function, ...

Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

That later screening could help the district identify students who can’t even begin to work on reading comprehension because a disability is keeping them from being able to decode text ...