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

Getting children reading in schools is helping them become "more confident, more imaginative and more creative", a charity ...

Create a game, get people of all ages involved, and make a habit of reading. Here’s what literacy experts say works best.

A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher Scholastic, he helped design and execute the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve always been a reader. When my kids were born, I looked forward to sharing books I’ve loved with them. Of course, what we read to little kids are mostly, well, little-kid books—not the books we ...

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 ...

When Inside Higher Education recently interviewed college students about their reading, a University of Florida sophomore claimed she relied entirely on YouTube videos to explain her reading. Academic ...

Our Kids Read has donated over 50,000 books to elementary school students and raised $250,000 to fund literacy initiatives nationwide. Jahmal Lake is the founder of the Black-led nonprofit Our Kids ...

Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher of children’s content and innovators in kids’ digital reading, has released the findings of its Kids & Family Reading Report, the purpose of which is to ...