Pre-recorded storybooks can improve the vocabulary of preschoolers, most notably those at-risk, and help get them ready for school, a new study shows.

Following school closures in spring 2020 due to COVID-19, children's reading fluency in the US is roughly 30% behind what's expected in a typical year.

New research on dyslexia points to an unexpected conclusion: Areas of the brain behind reading skill are also involved in math tasks.

People reading novels on their Kindle are more likely to highlight passages with a linguistic device called the generic "you." Here's why.

People reading novels on their Kindle are more likely to highlight passages with a linguistic device called the generic "you." Here's why.

Extraneous pictures can draw young children's attention away from text and reduce reading comprehension in beginning readers, a new study shows.

Small, seemingly invisible words like "a," "it," and "the," show up in similar ways across all kinds of stories, researchers have found.

Why do more women than men enroll in education after high school? Differences in teen reading skills may shed light on the college gender gap.

"In fact, it seems like although Sans Forgetica is novel and hard to read, its effects might well end there."

Animated digital books that respond to children's voices can help kids get involved with their own learning and control the action