Kids who are read to daily are nearly three times more likely to enjoy independent reading compared to weekly readers, the ...

Reading aloud is useful not just with kids, but many friends and romantic partners also like being read to. Even at work, if you read aloud well, it can be engaging. Here, I offer tips on how to read ...

A mother and her tween daughter are browsing titles in a locally owned independent bookstore. The young girl is perusing the extraordinary Newbery Honor–winning memoir-in-verse Brown Girl Dreaming by ...

As schools continue in virtual and hybrid capacities because of the pandemic, parents and teachers are in search of ways to make up for lost learning time and prevent the inevitable COVID slide.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

As a child, Alakananda Bhattacharya loved when her English teacher would ask her to read aloud to the class. Over the years, the 43-year-old singer and writer based in Delhi, India, has continued to ...

Continuing our series on Read Alouds That Rock, we asked a number of literacy experts to share their strategies for integrating nonfiction storytimes in their work with young readers. Click here to ...

A new British survey from data company Nielsen and publisher HarperCollins found that the number of parents reading aloud to their preschool-age kids declined to just 41 percent, from 64 percent in ...