Digital platforms can help make reading aloud independently more engaging and get kids excited about literacy practice.

LITERACY TOOLKIT. TOM. YOU KNOW, JERRY AND BRIAN, THE GOVERNOR SAID EARLIER TODAY, WE CAN’T PRETEND THAT TECHNOLOGY LIKE CELLPHONES DOESN’T EXIST. IT MEANS WE SEE A LOT OF SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT BEAMED ...

Elementary school children may be harmed by overuse of tech tools for spelling. Literacy experts are calling for change and ...

From online news articles written at five different reading levels to algorithms that create personalized vocabulary lists, ed-tech tools are rapidly expanding the ways in which teachers can ...

Pfizer developed a healthcare literacy tool to help healthcare providers determine patients’ level of literacy and alter communication practices accordingly. The Newest Vital Sign assessment can be ...

Reading was easy for Dr. Doug Fisher when he was growing up in San Diego, but it wasn’t for everybody. “I had friends who were illiterate,” he says. “They just pretended they could read, and the ...

MediaWise expanded its reach to help people around the world easily access free digital media literacy tools. We provide resources in four languages — Portuguese, French, Spanish and Turkish. These ...

A recent study found 82 percent of middle school students couldn’t differentiate sponsored articles from real news stories, stressing the importance of including media and news literacy lessons in ...

I agree with most of what Mark Bauerlein wrote in his essay, “Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind” (The Chronicle Review, September 19), but as an academic librarian I must take strong exception to one ...