When Sheila Confer finished reading “Rising Out of Hatred” by Eli Saslow, she wanted everyone to experience the book. Confer, an instructor for Pitt’s Greensburg campus, gathered about 400 students ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

Amidst the rapid evolution of the digital age in which distractions dominate our attention, the profound impact of reading is often overlooked. However, beyond being just a leisurely pursuit, reading ...

We’ve all heard the axiom “Leaders are readers.” Then, we began to hear that this wasn’t totally accurate. We can consume information in so many other ways besides reading, right? I want to make the ...

Picture a 3 rd grade classroom. A teacher and a child sit side by side, open booklets before them both. The teacher starts a timer. The girl begins to read: “Goldfish make good pets. They are easy to ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

World Book Day is an annual celebration of books, literacy, storytelling and authors, designed to promote reading for pleasure. But the joys of reading should not be confined to one day only. Beyond ...

WASHINGTON – A key discovery about the impact of stroke on a person’s ability to read reveals why a deficit occurs – a finding that presents a possible opportunity for new therapeutic strategies to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fiordaliso/Getty Images Few things are better than reading a good book on your porch on a warm summer night, but sometimes it’s ...