High School Reading articles, book lists, videos, and milestones

Nonfiction is now more important than ever. Here's what it means for your child.

Educator Jim Trelease explains why reading aloud to your child, no matter what her age, is the magic bullet for creating a lifelong reader.

Education standards are turning kids into sleuths — every day in every subject — by asking kids to show their evidence.

Exercise and academics

Can kids sweat their way to academic excellence?

Why parents must teach writing

Expert Douglas Reeves says kids aren't learning to write, and it's a disaster in the making.

Award-winning author Rick Riordan shares how he turned his son with learning disabilities into an insatiable lover of literature.

Here's a reading list of graphic novels — they just may revolutionize your teen's reading and thinking.

Boost your child's verbal skills with our grade-based lists of academic vocabulary words for kids ages 6 to 18.

Knowing (and using!) these vocabulary words will help your high school senior with schoolwork, college admissions tests, and college apps.

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