Book reading in schools has fallen off severely and, in many classrooms, nearly disappeared, but our model legislation, called the BOOKS Act, can ensure that kids start reading full books again, ...

Discover English fiction that feels effortless to read yet quietly strengthens vocabulary, proving that simple prose can be ...

Not-so-great expectations: Students are reading fewer books in English class “There was a trend, it happened when COVID hit, to stop reading full-length novels because students were in trauma; we were ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

Mr. Donahue teaches high school English at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut. In her memoir, Dorothy Allison writes, “Two or three things I know for sure and one of them is that telling the ...

Pairing a book for focus with one for escape makes reading richer.