The UD Digital Textbook Font, released in 2016, was designed to be easy to read for children with low vision or dyslexia, and to make the movements and shapes of the characters easy to understand when ...
Will there ever be another Harry Potter? Between 1997 and 2007, it seemed like every child (and even their parents) was reading J.K. Rowling’s timeless fantasy novels about a skinny, bespectacled ...
Reading without a purpose leads to lesser comprehension and long-term memory. Many students who read this way find it difficult to participate in class discussions and do as well on their exams as ...
In the last few weeks, I’ve seen online posts from teachers bemoaning their students’ lack of enthusiasm for reading. Our international standardized test scores are down again. And then there’s the ...
Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...
Imagine opening a book that knows exactly what you want to read. Not just the genre, but the pacing you prefer, the ...
The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of daily use, with 57% of ...
As the pandemic drove a sudden, massive and necessary shift to online education last year, students were forced to access much of their school reading assignments digitally. Turning so heavily to ...