Reading and Writing

What happens when students watch movie adaptations of literary works? “Increasingly in contemporary [...]  schooling, great store is place...

As kids and teenages go back to school, depression linked to change of environment and new challenges might kick in. Putting on headphones a...

On the "woes that have befallen our country on the social, legal, moral and even political arenas, and the role of literature in creati...

"Today our children don’t read works of imagination and the results are what we see today. Children or students who don’t ask questions...

"Stories are crucial in our lives; we communicate with others using stories all the time. They're what we tell others about ourselv...

"From Reader’s Digest to Cliff’s Notes to No Fear Shakespeare, simplified novels have infiltrated American society over generations. Th...

"Today, with the widespread of education and the booming of the print industry, we would expect more people getting into reading habits...

"Even with video games, computer tablets and other digital resources, the book still remains a powerful tool to tell stories, teach fac...

"I have been told that many schools have changed their core reading curriculum to include more modern commercial novels... I believe th...

Can reading fiction cut selfishness, stop growth of mass-shooting psychopaths? One thing appears certain: reading fiction gives rise to empa...

"The major problem with the new Common Core State Standards is that they further diminish something that is greatly undermined from the...

"The hard fact is that either directly or indirectly parents are role models to their children. ... As regards reading, parents need to...

A student "says he prefers watching films to reading novels. He argues that watching a movie is more interesting than reading a novel. ...

"Starting this year, at least half of all reading in our schools is supposed to be non-fiction. And that includes kindergarten. What ma...

"Data from the NEA points to a dramatic and accelerating decline in the number of young people reading fiction. Despite their enthusias...

As new school year approaches and recruiters will be sweeping every campus for impressionable youth it may be a good idea to recount what it...

"Children are completely entrapped by these mediums [TV]. They think and speak in the language propagated by them. It is because media ...

Save children from literature in order to help instil in them the love of the written word: "When reading great works, ones grasp on la...

"Literary fiction is an art that seeks to create an immersive experience for the reader, but we often don't approach it that way wi...

"The Central Intelligence Agency and the 15 other agencies that make up the so-called ‘US Intelligence Community’ are by definition sec...