Reading

Amid a national movement to update instruction to match what science says about learning to read, Illinois has adopted a blueprint to improve reading skills among its youth.

The local chapters want to improve literacy rates in the region, launching the "Right to Read" campaign with a mission to get children — especially Black children — proficient in fourth grade reading by 2030.

The Noir Bookshop is placing a book vending machine in book deserts around St. Louis beginning next month to boost literacy in communities of color.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program is now statewide in Missouri. The program provides children with a free book in the mail each month until their fifth birthday. The goal is to nurture a love of reading and improve literacy.

Amid a national push for reading instruction reform, lawmakers are weighing a bill to give Illinois until 2024 to come up with a new plan.

Education leaders want Missouri teachers to lean into research-backed literacy instruction methods, known as the science of reading.

Eleven women in the state Senate are touring Missouri to discuss fourth grade reading levels.

Librarians Jennifer Alexander of St. Louis County Library and Jen Ohzourk of St. Louis Public Library share their favorite new books of the past year.

Sixth grader Andre Turner leaned up against a wall-size mural of the new reading center at Confluence Academy-Old North.His head rested on the “B,” about…

It’s estimated that as many as 1 in 5 people around the world have dyslexia, a learning disorder that affects how one’s brain processes information about…