Here are some reading and writing activities that take little paper or prep and can fill your home with letters, sounds and word fun.

New research suggests a nine-minute burst of high-intensity exercise can sharpen kids’ brain function and improve academic ...

Both third-grade children (mean age 9-6) and fifth-grade children (mean age 11-6) performed like adults in that they named a word (e. g., "tractor") just as fast when it was preceded by a related but ...

Caffeine perks up most coffee-lovers, but a new study shows a small dose of caffeine also increases their speed and accuracy for recognizing words with positive connotation. The research shows ...

Evanston/Skokie School District 65 is updating its K-8 literacy curriculum to emphasize necessary foundational skills, including word recognition and language comprehension, needed to read complex ...

Research into morphological processing— the dissection of complex words into their smallest meaningful units (morphemes)—has significantly enhanced our understanding of word recognition. This ...