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 ...

“Knowledge-building” has become a buzzword in reading instruction. It refers to English/language arts approaches that aim to systematically build students’ understanding of the world—rather than ...

This year, Duolingo – a famous language learning app – launched the ‘Duolingo ABC’ app to help children (3-8 years) to learn reading and writing in English. The free app has been developed by learning ...

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Reading to dogs improves children's reading, study says. EAST NORWALK, Conn. Aug. 18, 2010— -- Man's best friend can do a lot more than fetch and roll over. Research now suggests that dogs can ...

That was the response from a handful of K-12 teachers—1st grade classroom teachers, high school math teachers, and those in between—to this question posed by Education Week in a recent (unscientific) ...

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 ...

Child Development, Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL SECTION: Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interaction (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016), pp. 184-193 (10 pages) Variability ...

A longitudinal study suggests the developmental window for complex language comprehension closes much earlier in autistic ...

The 74 reports a decline in parents reading to children, linked to past negative experiences and digital distractions, ...