Parenting: Effect of Reading on Kids Brains

There are many ways young children encounter stories. A new study finds a "Goldilocks effect," where a cartoon may be "too hot" and audiobooks "too... (2018)

Angelist: "Hooked is a “chat fiction” app that has gotten 20 million teens to collectively read over 10 billion fictional text messages in the past... (2017)

Attention exhausted parents: The next time your toddler starts making strange noises or babbling about Paw Patrol, try to strike up a conversation ... (2018)

Reading aloud and playing imaginative games may help children deal with emotions like anger and sadness, researchers say. (2018)

Two-thirds of the nation's schoolchildren struggle with reading. Neuroscientist Mark Seidenberg says teachers need a better understanding of what s... (2018)

Before my daughter learned to speak, she learned to sign, and the first sign she mastered was “more.” More meant more—as in, “Give me more milk be... (2018)

According to a team of Harvard researchers, the key to addressing the achievement gap lies in connecting parents' natural instincts with what we kn... (2018)

A new study suggests that exposure to large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency in three key areas (2018)

"More and more of our society is centered on pictures and images, which is a beautiful thing. But some of the most important parts of life are not ... (2019)

A national reading survey by Scholastic reveals something they’re calling the “decline by nine.” According to the report, the percentage of kids de... (2019)

Personal History by Kathryn Schulz: When my father was a child, books were gifts. For his daughters, he made sure they were a given. (2019)