Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

How we teach children to read has been a contentious issue in the United States for decades, a debate that has "occasionally grown so vicious it's been dubbed the Reading Wars," Vox reported. On one ...

Lions, made with Legos and wearing masks, sit atop book shelves in the children's section of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in New York on June 1, 2021. (Mark Lennihan/AP) As a retired ...

Advocates for the science of reading need to expand their view of the science and push for the adoption of curricula that incorporate it. Opponents and even advocates of the “science of reading” often ...

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Children who begin reading for pleasure early in life tend to perform better at cognitive tests and have better mental health when they enter adolescence, a study of more than 10,000 young adolescents ...