The contest has inspired students to line up daily to check out books. CaedenCe, a top reader at Rim Rock Elementary, ...

For Makenzie Gilkison, spelling is such a struggle that a word like rhinoceros might come out as “rineanswsaurs” or sarcastic ...

Literacy rates are tumbling as kids' attention spans dwindle. Families are scraping together funds to move schools or get ...

My folks were at work while I was under the eye of my babysitting sister which meant that as long as I was alive and in one ...

By Brian Raftery A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender Japanese novel about the beauty of connection, a book by a death doula: Editors and writers from around the newsroom describe their ...

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look. In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a ...

Heidi Klum may be the queen of Halloween, but she certainly doesn’t disappoint when it comes to Christmas! On Tuesday, Dec.

Get ready to laugh-out-loud as Guy Montgomery and his loyal assistant Aaron Chen are joined by some of Australia's favourite personalities, testing their spelling prowess with wildly inventive ...

The International Literacy Association (ILA) is a professional organization with a mission of connecting research and practice to continuously improve the quality of literacy instruction across the ...

This valuable study relating brain anatomy to reading ability in children studied longitudinally finds that a difference in sulcal anatomy is more predictive of reading ability than cognitive measures ...

A woman spent a year saving to buy tickets for Taylor Swift’s final Era’s Tour show – by recycling bottles and cans.

Specialized schools in downtown Charleston and Mount Pleasant offer an alternative for SC families struggling with learning ...