Proposed changes to Reading’s zoning ordinance are intended to make the zoning approval process simpler and more business friendly, the city’s director of community development said. Jamal Abodalo ...

The invention of close reading. By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...

The edtech market is saturated with various tools designed to improve children’s literacy from e-readers to apps to digital libraries. Over the past few years, more literacy tools have been using ...

Expert Warns AI-Driven Literacy Decline, Urges Deep Reading UCLA Professor Maryanne Wolf Cites AIs Impact on Brain Development, Critical Thinking in Knowledge Workers ...

Reading, while not technically medicine, is a fundamentally wholesome activity. It can prevent cognitive decline, improve sleep, and lower blood pressure. In one study, book readers outlived their ...

W hen I was an undergraduate at Amherst College, it was a rite of passage for all English majors to discover that they had entirely misunderstood Robert Frost’s most famous poem “The Road Not Taken” ( ...

Dr. David Kilpatrick is pictured speaking at the LoGuidice Educational Center to a standing-room-only crowd of educators from throughout the region as part of the Science of Reading Symposium. The ...

Recently, some Midwestern relatives visited us in California and, much to my surprise, the three children ranging in age from 8 to 10 sat in our living room, pulled out books, and immediately started ...