Help your child become a confident, enthusiastic reader through the Reading Skills Programs taught by instructors from the Institute of Reading Development.Programs offered at CWRU, and in Akron, ...

A reading block in an elementary school classroom can feel like a carefully choreographed 120-minute dance. Time is a finite resource, and it often falls to teachers to make decisions about how much ...

Yet one simple habit continues to make a lasting difference: reading together. Reading aloud to children can be an accessible ...

Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...

Last month we wrote about four things we really do know about learning to read, based on a comprehensive and balanced review article by Castles, Rastle, and Nation published earlier this year. Castles ...

In case parents needed another reason to police their children's screen time, new research shows that social media use is hurting preteens' memory and reading skills. The new study, published Monday ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

Hyperlexia first appeared in the literature in a 1967 paper describing young children with reading skills exceeding their language comprehension skills (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967). The initial ...

Regular social media use during early adolescence is linked to weaker reading and vocabulary development over time, new research shows. Teens who spend more time on social platforms are more likely to ...

Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For newcomers to a country, success often depends on learning to read fluently in a ...

If your teen is not a reader and you blame social media for hijacking their brains, you're not so far off base: A new study has found regular social media use during early adolescence is related to ...