Despite the competing roles that contemporary public and school librarians juggle,
advocating for youth literacy remains a priority. Both school and public librarians can support …

Adolescence is often positioned as a particularly vulnerable period for reading motivation
and engagement, both for academic reading and reading for pleasure. However, closer …

Struggling literacy learners are typically low achievers with poor engagement in literacy
learning, and the gap between struggling and capable students widens as children move …

Regular recreational book reading is a practice that confers substantial educative benefit.
However, not all book types may be equally beneficial, with paper book reading more …

While librarians in schools often face significant budgetary cuts, they can play an important
role in supporting learning in literacy and literature. However, little is known about the …

Regular recreational reading offers benefits across a range of literacy outcomes, as well as
supporting learning in other subject areas, offering cognitive benefits, and potentially …

Parents play a major role in the reading habits of their children. In this review, we identify
parental factors contributing to the reading habits among children, which include parental …

Aliteracy, the state in which the skill to read has been acquired, but not the will, is a growing
concern in research on adolescence internationally. The West Australian Study in …

Identifies evidence-backed and easy-to-implement strategies for encouraging young people
to read, and helps you to position your library as an indispensable resource for supporting …

The purpose of this study was to test the directionality of influence between reading
comprehension (RC) and print exposure (PE), thereby estimating genetic and environmental …