Parents and teachers often stop reading aloud to children as they get older and can read on their own. But reading aloud actually helps students with fluency and vocabulary and boosts their own ...

As their screen time increases, young children are less likely to be read to by their parents. In a 2025 nationally representative survey by HarperCollins UK, less than half (41%) of U.K. parents ...

New Neuroscience Shows Why It’s So Important to Read Aloud to Your Kids. Surveys show fewer parents are reading aloud to their kids. Here’s why even the busiest of parents should make the time.

Reading aloud to kids helps their vocabulary and comprehension. These are skills we continue to build all through our lives. Why it’s important to read aloud to your kids – even after they can ...

For reading, the science of reading investigates the best ways for children to learn to read in different languages. Reading involves complex processes in the brain, as learners need to make sense of ...

The HarperCollins UK report revealed that only 40% of all parents, including millennials and Gen Xers, said reading aloud to kids is “fun for me.” It’s not that modern moms and dads are lazy ...

BELVIDERE (WREX) — World Read Aloud Day celebrates everything about reading, encouraging kids and families to read aloud together. Meehan Elementary School in Belvidere held a big celebration ...

A team of US researchers on Sunday encouraged parents and caregivers to read aloud with their newborns and young children as an opportunity to foster loving, nurturing relationships during a critical ...

So it introduces more complex ideas, words and sentence patterns. This is why reading aloud to your children is a parental superpower – you can continue to build where the school learning stops.