COMMENTARY: From medical studies to classic Catholic stories, evidence abounds: reading aloud is one of the most powerful ...

Young children whose parents read aloud to them have better language and literacy skills when they go to school, according to a new review. Young children whose parents read aloud to them have better ...

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 ...

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