Jason Keil is a writer, editor, and podcaster based in Phoenix, Arizona. Despite numerous attempts, he has yet to read the copy of \Infinite Jest\" on his nightstand.""" Back-to-school time is almost ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his ...

Learning to read reshapes how the brain processes language. New research from Baycrest and the University of São Paulo shows that learning to read fundamentally changes how the brain responds to ...

Literacy-focused, educational apps are nontraditional ways to help kids practice reading. Educational apps help families balance learning and fun. Apps like PBS KIDS Games, featuring some of the most ...

Every parent of multiple children will tell you that each child does things at their own pace and in their own way. For instance, one child might love baseball and excel at throwing one while another ...

Outside, it was summer, but inside John Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Quantesha Pittman was teaching third graders to build words. "What's that first sound again?" she asked the room of about ...

Reading can unlock the world. It allows us to communicate, express ourselves and move throughout the world. However, not all Arizona students leave elementary school with the reading skills they need ...

I am not surprised that “Kindergartners Arrive Less Ready for School Than Before Pandemic” (U.S. News, Jan. 13). As a former kindergarten and first-grade teacher who then spent 35 years preparing ...

If plummeting reading rates are playing a role in diminishing faith, could reawakening our love of books spark a deeper connection with God?

Is reading to your kids a bedtime ritual in your home? For many of us, it will be a visceral memory of our own childhoods. Or of the time raising now grown-up children. Perhaps it involves a nightly ...

Culture has sculpted your brain in a fashion different from most of the members of our species who have ever lived. A search for evidence for that claim need proceed no further than the fact that you ...