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I have an 8 year old who’s a good reader but would rather spend his time doing anything else — especially pursuing his interests in karate, friends, and video games. His homework from school is to read 25 minutes per day and it’s a challenge to find high‐interest reading materials for him at his gra...

If you’re a student or an academic, you probably have a large volume of reading you need to do every week, and there’s only so many hours that you can be hunched over your desk reading. Why not clip your next few readings to Pocket, the read‐it‐later app for iOS and Android that now features t...

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Even in the upper grades, students are struggling to make the transition from “learning‐to‐read” to “reading‐to‐learn”. Give a struggling reader a context‐reduced novel written in old, antiquated language and you will realize that students need as much life‐like context as w...