Psychology and neuroscience provide intriguing answers.

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

Literacy rates are declining, screen time is increasing, and experts are sounding the alarm on the death of parents reading to their children. Though it is critical for their cognitive development, ...

Sabine Little receives funding from the UK Literacy Association. Just 34.6% of children in the UK read for pleasure, according to a 2024 survey by the National Literacy Trust. This is the lowest ...

Karen Boardman does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A 2024 American Library Association report noted kids spend just 6 minutes daily reading for pleasure. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Daily adult-child reading ...

Almost 1 in 4 students are enrolled in a dual-language, Spanish-English program in the Southside schools in San Antonio. So when the district embraced the “science of reading,” it prioritized figuring ...

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 ...