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The SDG Book Club, led by the UNIC, UNESCO, and UNICEF, launched the Reading Mediation Activity Guide (available in Spanish) ...

Libraries across the United States have implemented comprehensive summer reading programs designed to prevent the significant learning losses that can occur during summer months, when students ...

It’s a summer day and it's too hot to play outside. Your child is glued to a screen, content to spend their day with air-conditioning and digital media. Sound familiar? It’s the time of year when many ...

Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books.

With summer break around the corner, parents are seeking ways to keep young minds sharp and avoid the dreaded summer brain drain. Research says children who read for pleasure and are motivated to read ...

It’s time for summer reading lists, reading programs, and reading challenges! Get your kids, ages 5 to 18, reading with ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

Reading boosts cognitive development, improves academic performance, and strengthens social emotional learning skills.

Media and screen time are an enormous part of kids' lives today. It's everywhere. According to Common Sense Media (2017), ...

Recent surveys show a significant decline in American schoolchildren reading for pleasure, from 70% in 1984 to 36% today. Author Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan and other adventure heroes, ...

Riding a wave of growing enthusiasm for reading, many bookstores and libraries have expanded their programming to let grown-ups in on the literary fun. By Anna Diamond Anna Diamond grew up ...