Reading programs in the Valley are an important resource for children. Here's how communities are building these initiatives.

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nerve-wracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, ...

Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...

Isabella Bautista, 8, loves to read “Dork Diaries,” a children’s book series. “It’s about a girl who’s going through life,” said Isabella, referring to the 14-year-old protagonist, Nikki Maxwell, in ...

Daughtrey Elementary School in the hallway outside their classroom, she was greeted with hugs. The children exclaimed “Miss. Gina!” with a level of excitement that was hard to ignore.  After the ...

New research shows students who were not school age during the COVID-19 pandemic are struggling to catch up in reading despite avoiding the classroom disruptions older students experienced. NWEA, a ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

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 ...

BURBANK, Calif. (KABC) -- The PAWS for Reading program is combining reading with animals. "I feel like I would just stay here for two hours going from room to room to room to room reading to animals ...

School is out, the mercury is climbing at a record pace, and young people across America are at risk of losing the reading and math skills they learned during the academic year. In an average year, ...

Reading is an essential life skill that predicts success on many levels later in life. There is clear evidence demonstrating that young people who do not learn to read proficiently are more likely to ...

PHOENIX — Children typically learn to read between kindergarten and third grade, but Arizona kids are falling behind when it comes to literacy. Under 40 percent of Arizona third graders are reading at ...