The 74 reports a decline in parents reading to children, linked to past negative experiences and digital distractions, ...

Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading to ...

What nurtures a child’s holistic development? How can we address the cognitive overload and parent-child disconnect of the ...

When a child shares a book with a parent or carer, this encourages joint attention, helping adults to connect with their ...

Getting children reading in schools is helping them become "more confident, more imaginative and more creative", a charity has said. Read With Me currently works in 110 out of the 244 primary schools ...

It’s a summer day and it's too hot to play outside. Your child is glued to a screen, content to spend their day with air-conditioning and digital media. Sound familiar? It’s the time of year when many ...

With all ears, animals are considered some of the best listeners, as they can help improve reading skills and confidence ...

The benefits of reading with children are innumerable. Children who read with their caregivers report higher levels of reading comprehension, fluency and self-confidence. But do you know of its mental ...

Readers find a classroom trend of assigning shorter texts “troubling.” Also: Reaction to President Trump’s naming of a ...

Every year, educators worry about “summer slide,” the potential for learning loss when children are not in school. This issue is more pronounced among low-income families who don’t have access to ...

Children who start to read for fun early in life get better test scores by the time they reach adolescence, according to a new study. Reading for pleasure by the age of nine is also linked to better ...