English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

When reading a passage, readers may pause at a particular word or return to reread it. Studies using eye-tracking, which ...

Allegory is another of the advanced English words that smart people use to show how educated they are. It's most commonly ...

In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.

Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah and Siri Carr met while tutoring middle school students in English as part of AmeriCorps.

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region. The longest word is “carry-go-bring-come." ...

California schools will begin screening kindergartners and first- and second- graders for dyslexia to combat the state's low ...

Part of what makes the Wellspring Literary Series special is the rare combination of poetry, music, food, and visual art.

This mismatch between what I knew in print and how I said it out loud wasn’t embarrassing to me. It just showed that I was learning, absorbing information and using ...

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region ...

The word "bate" has multiple, unrelated origins. One is a 14th-century shortening of abate from Old French and Latin, meaning ...

Several words also overlapped in a couple of states, including Charybdis, a term inspired by Greek mythology that’s tricky ...