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Lions, made with Legos and wearing masks, sit atop book shelves in the children's section of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in New York on June 1, 2021. (Mark Lennihan/AP) As a retired ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

You pick up a novel and start reading, going through the second chapter, your heart rate runs faster and by chapter three, ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

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In a recent papal letter, discussed at some length in a recent column by Len Gutkin, a senior editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Pope Francis discusses literature’s value in moral and ...

This post was co-authored with Professor John Vervaeke 1. Thinking, Fast and Slow is one of the great books written on cognition and decision making. In a clear and accessible fashion, it made popular ...