Tag: Reading
Why we remember more by reading – especially print – than...
Naomi S. Baron, American University
During the pandemic, many college professors abandoned assignments from printed textbooks and turned instead...
Some kindergartners are more likely to be heavy users of online...
Paul L. Morgan, Penn State
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Specific groups of kindergartners in the U.S. are...
Teaching kids to read during the coronavirus pandemic: 5 questions answered
Keisha McIntosh Allen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Kindel Turner Nash, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Keisha McIntosh Allen and Kindel Turner Nash research...
Parents can help kids catch up in reading with a 10-minute...
Kindel Turner Nash, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Because I conduct research about reading, parents often ask me the same question: “What can I do...
What advice articles miss about ‘summer loss’
Kelly Chandler-Olcott, Syracuse University
When the end of the school year arrives, internet articles and morning talk shows sound the annual alarm about preventing summer...
Text messages to parents can help boost children’s reading skills
Kalena E. Cortes, Texas A&M University and Hans Fricke, Stanford University
Boosting preschoolers’ literacy can be as simple as sending their parents a few...
Why it matters that teens are reading less
Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
Most of us spend much more time with digital media than we did a decade ago. But today’s teens...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
