Psychology and neuroscience provide intriguing answers.

The 74 reports a decline in parents reading to children, linked to past negative experiences and digital distractions, ...

It’s a summer day and it's too hot to play outside. Your child is glued to a screen, content to spend their day with air-conditioning and digital media. Sound familiar? It’s the time of year when many ...

Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading to ...

A daily bedtime reading routine enhances cognitive empathy and creativity in children, with reflective pauses boosting ...

School’s out — and summer reading challenges are in. Everywhere from public libraries to bookstores like The King’s English Bookshop and Barnes & Noble to Chuck E. Cheese are kicking off summer ...

The studies are clear: a child not reading proficiently by the third grade faces a bumpy academic road, with poor educational ...

A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher Scholastic, he helped design and execute the ...

Children’s Book Week is celebrated May 5 – 11. As a nation and as parents, let’s use this week to help our kids fall in love with reading again. Children’s Book Week is a perfect time to put down the ...

PHOENIX — As children across Arizona head into summer break, educators don't want parents to let the "summer slide" kick in. The "summer slide" is when kids can lose what they've learned before ...

What nurtures a child’s holistic development? How can we address the cognitive overload and parent-child disconnect of the ...

A charity that wants to boost children's literacy by arranging for adults to listen to pupils read is appealing for more volunteers. The national charity, Schoolreaders, matches volunteers to local ...