Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers ...

Americans aren’t just reading fewer books, but are reading less and less of everything, in any medium. That’s the doleful conclusion of “To Read or Not to Read,” a report scheduled for release today ...

Parents often tell their children to sound out the words as they are learning to read. It makes sense: Since they already ...

New research shows that parents who read to their 6- to 8-year-olds nightly boost their children’s creativity and empathy.

Reading for pleasure in the U.S. fell 40% over two decades, the study found. Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past ...

Sarah J. Maas, Freida McFadden and Emily Henry – can these popular authors join forces and save the day against a dangerous decline in reading for enjoyment? Daily reading for pleasure has plummeted ...

Children who start to read for fun early in life get better test scores by the time they reach adolescence, according to a new study. Reading for pleasure by the age of nine is also linked to better ...

Test scores at 66 of the state’s lowest-performing schools strongly outpaced similar schools after educators adopted phonics-based instruction, offering some of the most compelling evidence to date ...