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 ...

Is reading to your kids a bedtime ritual in your home? For many of us, it will be a visceral memory of our own childhoods. Or of the time raising now grown-up children. Perhaps it involves a nightly ...

Educators, literacy advocates, and speech experts are highlighting the lasting benefits of reading aloud to children, from toddlers to teens. Research-backed strategies range from interactive ...