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 ...

As summer break approaches for students across North Texas, former First Lady Laura Bush released her 2025 Summer Reading List for Kids. On Instagram, the Bush Center said this year’s list consists of ...

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Read With Jenna Jr. is back! Jenna Bush Hager has hand-selected a line-up of 22 books for young readers across age ranges. This continues a tradition Jenna started in 2023, when she released her first ...

Readers find a classroom trend of assigning shorter texts “troubling.” Also: Reaction to President Trump’s naming of a ...

The annual What Kids Are Reading Report has shown a drop of 4.4% in the number of books being read by children with reading decline particularly acute in secondary schools. For the last 16 years, the ...

Looking for fun things for your kids to do this summer? Summer programs can be a fun way to encourage your kids to read more, and they can even earn some exciting rewards and freebies along the way.

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 ...

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In 2008, first grade teacher Alvin Irby stopped by a Bronx barbershop after school for a haircut. Before long, one of his students came in. “He is getting antsy; he’s kind of looking bored,” Irby ...

Summer is a chance for your child to solidify a reading habit — one that may morph into a lifelong love of reading. For the second year in a row, we’re introducing Read With Jenna Jr., an initiative ...