Reading aloud to students during class time may sound like a simple, almost quaint, endeavor, as if from a bygone era. But literacy experts insist that it’s every bit as relevant now as ever, and they ...

Andrew Polk, 26, teaches 10th-grade English in suburban Ohio, not far from where he grew up. As a high school student less ...

Babies and young children are sponges that soak in practically everything in their environments. It’s true! Even during story time, their minds are at work, taking in all the language they hear and ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

Why aren’t your students doing the assigned reading? This year, that question has stumped faculty members across higher education. As people who have dedicated large chunks of our lives to books, we ...

It’s a strange admission for a children’s writer, but I wasn’t much of a reader as a child. Reading requires a certain facility for sitting still, and like many boys, I lacked it. I wasn’t alone in ...