We've all heard about the benefits of learning to read quietly and independently. A big part of learning at school is all about reading, but it's not always easy to find time for more reading at home.

Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

Margaret Kristin Merga receives funding from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund and the Collier Foundation. She has also received funding from the Ian Potter ...

A new British survey from data company Nielsen and publisher HarperCollins found that the number of parents reading aloud to their preschool-age kids declined to just 41 percent, from 64 percent in ...

Continuing our series on Read Alouds That Rock, we asked four educators to discuss some of the ways they share social emotional learning books with their students during storytime. Click here to see ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The leader of a local civic organization recently asked me if I would give a Zoom talk ...

We’ve all heard about the benefits of learning to read quietly and independently. A big part of learning at school is all about reading, but it’s not always easy to find time for more reading at home.