What do Jeff Kinney’s popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Ray Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451 have in common? What about Gossip Girl: A Novel, Cicely von Ziegesar’s catty romance and The Great Gilly ...

Sit in any bookstore or library for enough time, and you’ll hear an adult tell a child, “You can’t read that book – it isn’t at your reading level.” Comments like this have become all too typical as ...

Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...

Requiring public school students to read at their ability and comprehension level has boosted test outcomes, but choosing books gets tricky when fourth grade level literature includes everything from ...