College students skirting around doing assigned readings is not necessarily a new phenomenon, but lately, that problem has ...

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Parents may feel powerless to influence their children’s reading habits. But, in reality, they can dramatically impact kids’ ...

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Rose Horowitch’s article in The Atlantic is getting lots of buzz. Titled “ The elite college students who can’t read books ,” ...

Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student ...

To help educators support K-12 students who are struggling with reading comprehension ... such as descriptive passages, representation of cause and effect, elements to compare and contrast ...

Much of the reading material ... on selected passages — a concession to perceptions of shorter attention spans, pressure to prepare for standardized tests and a sense that short-form content ...

“Teachers at many schools shifted from books to short informational passages.” Reading whole books, for pleasure or purely for knowledge and information, is a developed habit. If there is ...

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