Holly Wheeler is often seen holding the same book. She reads it quietly. Again and again. At first, it looks n ...

Jazz, rock, and most American popular music all started with the blues, and that is why Berks Arts will present the sixth annual Reading Blues Fest through the weekend. Last year's festival broke ...

“Call it a combination of keen attention and ‘a profound indifference’ (to borrow Camus’s words) or a combination of intense emotion and an equally intense apathy. The fact is, there is no word for ...

Are you familiar with the slogan “Talk, Read, Sing”? These three activities help children create a foundation for oral language, which is essential to reading. By building oral language, children ...

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 ...

Last month we wrote about four things we really do know about learning to read, based on a comprehensive and balanced review article by Castles, Rastle, and Nation published earlier this year. Castles ...

Genesius Theatre in Reading will present the critically-acclaimed Tony Award-winning and Grammy Award-winning "Raisin," the Broadway musical based on Lorraine Hansberry's classic play "A Raisin in the ...

The “reading wars” have raged from most of the past century. Most often characterized as between the advocates of “phonics” versus “whole language” in early reading instruction, this “Great Debate” is ...

Karen Boardman does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Books are among the last things students will think of as school has taken the love for books away. However, reading provides several benefits. Upon returning to school for the 2021-2022 school year, ...

Reading fluency is the ability to read with proper speed, accuracy, and expression. Children, and people in general, must be able to read fluently in order to understand what they’re reading. This ...