My consciousness freshly raised and my mind spongier than ever, I spent my evenings imbibing the no-nonsense feminism of ...

Keep your soon-to-be or leaving 1st (first) graders, ages 6 and 7, practicing their growing reading skills with the best 1st grade books for summer reading.

Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...

When we think about teaching literacy, we often imagine young, elementary-age students as most in need. What about middle and high school students?

Diné poet Esther Belin has noticed the unique way writers from her community often engage with the English language.

Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to Mrs. Smith, a former classmate who is now a penniless widow, confined to ...

The English We Speak is your chance to catch up on the very latest English words and phrases. In under 3 minutes, we help you stay ahead of the pack by giving you 'must have' phrases that you can ...

In 1974, the International Reading Association (now International Literacy Association) and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) launched Children’s Choices: an annotated list of high-quality books ...

Louis previously won a MacDowell Fellowship, 2018 and 2023 American Book Awards, a 2023 National Endowments for the Arts ...