Mother tongue reading clubs continue to draw committed readers, but attracting youth can be an uphill task. Read more at ...

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

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 ...

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“Reading is dead” has become one of culture’s most confidently repeated claims—invoked every time attention spans shrink, ...

Book lovers have all inevitably found themselves slogging through arid prose that stretches on endlessly. Sometimes the culprit is a popular novel whose obnoxious characters you’re desperate to run ...

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 ...

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers ...

Ecker Hill Middle School students are spending advisory time this winter reading together as part of the school’s annual One Book One ...