A strong foundation in both writing and reading is critical to your success at Western Michigan University. Before you meet with your academic advisor for your one-on-one advising meeting, you should ...

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

Learning how to write well can make students better readers. Study after study has shown that when children are taught how to write complex sentences and compose different kinds of texts, their ...

Just as most students don’t automatically learn to read, they don’t automatically learn to write. The skill has to be taught. Research has shown that explicitly teaching students the processes of the ...

We have all been reading the news about disappointing literacy rates in California, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic and online learning. Last month, State Superintendent of Public ...

I love to write — and I have over 10 years’ worth of journals at home to prove it. Writing is my therapy, my outlet, my default. But there’s always been a little something that’s gotten in the way of ...

I grew up in the days of the SNES and the Sega Megadrive. Even then, furious debates would rage about the harm (or lack thereof) that video games would inflict on growing children. A few decades later ...

January is National Braille Literacy Month and a library in Baltimore happens to house the largest collection of braille ...

At least 70 percent of learners in primary schools in Uganda cannot write adequately, a new report by Uwezo Uganda and the People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network indicates. The report, titled ...