Nearly all teachers and principals believe students should have time for independent reading at school, yet only about a third of teachers set aside time each day for this, according to a recent ...

It’s a glorious thing to watch the expression on a child’s face when they are first able to read. The child is almost stunned that what was once a scramble of letters now makes sense. It is the ...

A study of 436 pairs of identical and same-sex nonidentical twins at age 10 and again a year later at 11 finds that children's reading achievement at age 10 predicted their independent reading at 11, ...

On Twitter today, a heated debate about the effectiveness of reading management and incentive programs like Accelerated Reader and Scholastic Reading Counts drove me to investigate what compels ...

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Parents today often feel the pressure to enroll their children in tutoring sessions to enhance their education. While this can be beneficial in certain situations, instilling a love for self-reading ...