Two experts break down what happens in the brain when you read text versus listen to an audiobook. Discover the differences ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

While some of us enjoy curling up with a good book, others prefer watching a series or playing video games. But from the perspective of neuroscience, reading is much more than just entertainment. This ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

Tiffany Hogan, a professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston and the director of its speech and language literacy lab, and MaryKate DeSantis, a school-based reading ...

Today, my subject is reading and I’m focusing on it because not only is this activity valued hugely by so many of us, but I ...

Will there ever be another Harry Potter? Between 1997 and 2007, it seemed like every child (and even their parents) was reading J.K. Rowling’s timeless fantasy novels about a skinny, bespectacled ...

Qualified educator and author Pretty Jama is combining creativity and education through personalised colouring books and a ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...