Oliver James was 32 when he admitted to TikTok followers he couldn't read. In a new memoir, he chronicles his journey from illiterate to booklover.

Children and an adult read books at the Altadena Main Library in Altadena, Calif., in March 2025. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images After decades of stagnating ...

In most states, schools are required to screen students as they enter kindergarten—a process that is meant to identify students who may need extra help learning to read. However, a new study by MIT ...

At 88, J.T. Johnson has only recently realized he has dyslexia, a common learning disability affecting up to one in five Americans. He has found assistance in Dysolve, a new computer program powered ...

Save the Children’s early learning specialists outline five key reasons why reading to babies and toddlers every day matters so much, especially in the first years of life.

New literacy campaigns, such as Turn on the Subtitles, have pointed to TV as a way to entice children to read, through same-language subtitles. However, research from Britain suggests that children ...

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 ...

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 ...

Music training seems to boost reading skills in young children by enhancing their ability to recognise and manipulate the sounds that make up words. Learning to play an instrument has long been linked ...

Stephanie N. Del Tufo, Ph.D. research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NICHD, NIDCD, NIE, NINDS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Spencer Foundation, the University ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- In most states, schools are required to screen students as they enter kindergarten — a process that is meant to identify students who may need extra help learning to read. However, a ...