When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

North Carolina has adopted new reading standards that will expand the use of the “science of reading” into middle schools and high schools in an effort to improve literacy skills for students. The ...

The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of daily use, with 57% of ...

There are a lot of things that have improved over the past 50 years, but are still far from perfect: Car safety. Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension instruction ...

Reading fluency — the ability to read accurately, automatically and with appropriate expression — remains a critical yet often overlooked component of literacy development. According to the National ...

An ongoing effort in New York state to encourage schools to adopt the “science of reading” is seeing some early success, according to a new survey, with the majority of educators reporting that their ...

The United States is in the grip of a reading recession—nearly half of Americans didn’t read a single book in 2023, and fewer than half read even one, according to data from YouGov and the National ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...