A Sheffield primary school has called on the help of local A-level students to help with their pupils' reading skills. Twice a week, sixth form students from Forge Valley Secondary School in ...

Do you remember your favourite books as a child – you know, the ones you read time and time again and knew practically every word of? Maybe you were lucky enough to regularly read stories with your ...

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As a high school science teacher, Fawn Phillips, who’s been teaching the subject since 1999, said she had never really thought about the problems her students were having with reading—nor did she have ...

Literacy is built on the below pre-reading skills. These are the foundations of your child’s path to becoming fluent readers. These skills are supported when you, as a parent, use the five early ...

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When my younger daughter was about 3 years old, she would sit in a small chair with her teddy bear on her lap and “read” Frog and Toad books aloud. Sometimes the book was upside down, and sometimes ...

It is no secret that the UK is in the middle of a loneliness epidemic. Research shows that more than 9 million people in the UK always or often feel lonely and that young adults (aged 16 to 24) ...

Anywhere from 5 to 20 percent of the population struggles with dyslexia, a learning disorder that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and how they relate to letters ...

Children given just 30 minutes of one-on-one literacy sessions a day saw their reading age improve by nearly two years in less than five months, according to a Government commissioned report. More ...

It's estimated that 400,000 children in the UK don't own any books - but a new project has been set up to try and change that. The new programme is called UK Reads. It's been launched by international ...