When Rachel Accurso's son developed a speech delay, the former teacher made it her mission to help her child learn how to speak. Now better known as Ms. Rachel, she transformed her living room into a ...

We’re going through a comic book phase at my house. Since lucking into the comics stash at the library, my 4-year-old refuses any other literary offering. Try as I might to rekindle her love of Rosie ...

Researchers at Laurentian University are reading French books to preschoolers this month to determine the best ways to teach them new words.

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Preschoolers read a lot into writing before they know how to read. Youngsters befuddled by printed squiggles on the pages of a storybook nonetheless understand that a written word, unlike a drawing, ...

Features in non-fiction children’s books such as lift-the-flap may hinder toddlers from learning new words, suggests new research. This is a finding by Dr Jeanne Shinskey, Royal Holloway, University ...

When literate adults pick up a book, they don't start sounding out each word letter by letter or sound by sound, the way their kindergarten or first-grade teacher probably told them to do when they ...

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.

When reading to children, simply reference the fact that the words coming out of your mouth are connected to those on the page. The earlier children become familiar with the printed word, the better ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the tiers associated with challenging words. Children who enter kindergarten with a small vocabulary don’t get taught enough ...

Sometimes life, with the aid of an unrelenting news cycle, can feel like an exercise in parsing out the particular kind of bad we are experiencing. Are we anxious or depressed, lonely or stressed? Tim ...