For some elementary school students, reading lessons are an opportunity to get messy and get out of their seats. Kids learning how to map letters to sounds might trace A’s and B’s in sand or shaving ...

Second Lady Usha Vance visited MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa to meet with military families and encourage children to ...

Oshkosh Public Library's summer reading program runs through Aug. 7 with activities and prizes for all ages.

More than 60 youngsters sat enthralled as Tehama County Librarian Sally Ainsworth, wearing a hot-dog hat, read a children's story during the first day of the Children's Summer Reading Program at the ...

Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

Prizes and activities keep kids motivated to read during summer break.

Celebrate the start of summer with family-friendly fun, activities, and prizes at the library’s June 24 reading kickoff event ...

Why is a book like this needed? A devastatingly large number of people in America cannot read as well as they need to for success in life. Large numbers of school-age children, including children from ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

The Metropolitan Library System is encouraging families across Oklahoma to take part in its summer reading program, designed ...