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Laura Patranella makes it a priority to read at least one novel each year with her elementary school students, relishing both the depth of these works and students’ communal experience of talking ...

Timothy E Shanahan 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 ...

According to some teachers and college professors, children aren’t reading as many whole books anymore. But just how widespread is this purported trend, and what does it mean for students’ literacy ...

I was 25-years-old and living in New York City. I had just finished my first novel, set to dip my toes into the literary world for the first time. Then, I spilled water on my computer, and lost the ...

The experiment was simple; so too, you may have thought, was the task. Students of literature at two American universities were given the first paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens and asked ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

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