To cultivate a lifelong love for reading in children, parents should prioritize curiosity and freedom over strict rules.

While reading for pleasure is unlikely, on its own, to fully address the challenging effects of poverty on the brain, it provides a simple method for improving children’s development and attainment.

While reading for pleasure is unlikely, on its own, to fully address the challenging effects of poverty on the brain, it provides a simple method for improving children’s development and attainment.

Article 2: When Kids Hate to Read. Would your child rather take out the trash than pick up a book? Dr. Marie Carbo, founder and executive director of the National Reading Styles Institute, says ...

Elementary school children are more likely to read than their older counterparts, according to the survey But still, the number of 9-year-olds who say they read for enjoyment almost every day ...

To ensure that kids are spending at least some time every day reading, classrooms across the country have instituted student reading logs, which typically require kids to read for a certain amount ...

Scrolling may work for social media, but experts say that for school assignments, kids learn better if they slow down their reading. By Perri Klass, M.D. In this pandemic year, parents have been ...

If you want kids to hate reading… Rush all five groups through your 45-minute Guided Reading block each day, preferably with a loud bell to interrupt them from what they’re doing every eight ...

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Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This 'million word gap ...

Powell’s Books in Portland, Ore., piloted an adult summer reading challenge two years ago after hearing from many customers who were jealous of their kids’ contest, which they’ve run since 2013.

Tip #2: Allow the Kids to Choose. I know, the perfectionist in me has a hard time with this one, but Duff has a point. After all, I like to choose my books, too. For her, it’s more about letting ...