After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

Not all kids learn to read at the same time, but here's how parents can keep tabs on their progress and offer support. (Getty Images; photo illustration by Oscar Duarte for Yahoo News) Learning to ...

Every parent of multiple children will tell you that each child does things at their own pace and in their own way. For instance, one child might love baseball and excel at throwing one while another ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...

Not all children learn to read in the same way, but schools tend to adopt a single approach to literacy. luckyvector/iStock via Getty Images Plus Five years after the pandemic forced children into ...

Books trump screens when it comes to reading comprehension, as Yahoo News reported. A new meta-analysis of the link between leisure reading and comprehension confirms previous findings that printed ...

Every year in Shaun Banks’ class, her 4th graders write a biography about a philanthropist who has benefited their community. Banks, who teaches in Chicago Public Schools, asks her students to use ...

Recently, an old friend of mine from elementary school ran a hand over my bookshelf, stopped, and said, “You stole this.” “I did not!” “Yes, you did. You totally stole it from school.” She pulled out ...

Learning to read is a major milestone in a child's life, and it takes time and patience for kids to get to the point where they're cruising through books on their own. Given how important reading is ...