Literacy Volunteers of Marion County (LVMC) were recently honored with the Spirit Award by North Central West Virginia ...

Kids learn best when they’re having fun. Reading is a skill built on practice and recognition. Reading to your child daily, letting her play with flashcards or letter magnets, and identifying ...

There’s no one silver bullet that will guarantee a child becomes a skilled and avid reader. But here are some things you can ...

If You Give A Child A Book recognizes the value of access to books in the home. As we visit students at Omaha's King ...

Inspiring a love of books is one of the best ways to prepare children for a lifetime of learning and enjoyment through reading. It will bring huge benefits at school and beyond, because being read ...

The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the ...

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math ...

When children learn these phonics patterns, and practice reading words using them, those words get stored in their memory. “Once you practice that word enough, you are able to recognize that wor ...

Still another possible factor in the plummeting reading scores is that literature has been deemphasized and even removed from many schools. As a result, students today often can’t or won’t read books.