Editor's note: With low reading proficiency scores across the state, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin is exploring the causes and consequences of low literacy. This article is part of the By the Book ...

Reading fluency is the ability to read with proper speed, accuracy, and expression. Children, and people in general, must be able to read fluently in order to understand what they’re reading. This ...

Ever find your attention drifting while you're trying to read through a block of text? Well, a new innovative reading system claims to be able to help. Offering the tools to make reading faster and ...

The “Science of Reading” is a loaded phrase these days. It’s creating a lot of controversy, partly because people define it in different ways. To some people, the “Science of Reading” represents a ...

We read a lot on our devices and not in physical books. How long it takes to read something depends on the person reading the content. To make reading a quick affair, there is an innovative technique ...

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...

Anyone who’s ever scratched their head over their car manual or struggled to parse a website’s terms of service knows: It’s hard to read about a topic you don ...

Book bans, chatbots, pedagogical warfare: What it means to read has become a minefield. Credit...Rodrigo Corral Supported by By A.O. Scott Everyone loves reading. In principle, anyway. Nobody is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Gold writes about wellness design and related housing topics. TV didn’t kill radio and TikTok hasn’t killed books. In fact, ...

Would you read Anna Karenina the same way you’d digest a new article on respiratory illnesses in “Science”? The answer feels obvious, even if the concept used to describe that difference—"disciplinary ...

We rarely talk about spring books or winter reading. What is it about summer that inspired a whole genre of its own? Credit...Justin Gilliland/The New York Times Supported by By Jennifer Harlan When ...

The invention of close reading. By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art ...