Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (NEBRASKA EXAMINER) - A first-of-its-kind statewide report related to reading and dyslexia for Nebraska K-12 students shows strides in addressing literacy as policymakers see room for ...

Dear Bonnie: I recently visited a psychic fair and the assistant taking the money asked me what kind of reading I wanted. I wasn’t sure about the differences and I really just wanted to connect to my ...

All computers come with spellcheckers and iPhones autocorrect their users’ texts. But despite those everyday features, formal spelling instruction still pays off, the findings of a new study suggest.

My end-of-year assignment for Salon's staff was simple, perhaps deceptively so. I wanted to know what books we'd read this year that shed light — from some direction, and in some fashion — on the just ...

The invention of close reading. By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art ...