The Surprising Reason Kids Can't Seem To Read Anymore

Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as ...
USA Today

How AI is affecting the way kids learn to read and write

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Gen Z Parents Don’t Like Reading to Their Kids, a New Study Says—Here’s How to Make It Fun

A new generation of readers is missing out on an essential experience: reading aloud with their parents. Here's how parents ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
Los Angeles Times

Parents, chill: Why you don’t need to teach your 3-year-old to read

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...
StamfordAdvocate

Children learn to read with books that are just right for them – but that might not be the best approach

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Timothy E Shanahan, University of Illinois Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) After decades of ...
New York Post

NYC should look to the Mississippi Miracle to learn how to teach reading

If you’re a parent of a young reader, would you rather start off in Manhattan or Mississippi? The answer may surprise you. Today, fourth-grade students in Mississippi read almost a full school year ...