Oliver James hopes to read 100 books in 2023. Oliver James is on a mission to learn to read. The 34-year-old may be functionally illiterate, but he's determined to change that -- with the help of ...

Watching a child learn to read feels magical. I remember the first time my son read a book all by himself. I watched in amazement as my kindergartner slowly made his way through an easy reader, ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...

Culture has sculpted your brain in a fashion different from most of the members of our species who have ever lived. A search for evidence for that claim need proceed no further than the fact that you ...

Lucinda McKnight receives funding from the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English and the Australian Research Council. Maria Nicholas receives funding from The Australian Research Council ...