Experts share tips for how to make reading more of a regular occurrence among boys at home.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New figures shared with ITV News show boys have turned their backs on books more than girls, as Rhys Williams reports Bestselling ...

When she was a kid, Bronwyn Slack couldn’t find anything she wanted to read. Her mother, a librarian, had a traditional view ...

Children's reading skills have been declining for some time now. Apart from the known fact that boys' reading skills are worse than girls', it is also common knowledge that they are less motivated ...

Reading is a critical skill for school and life beyond it. Young people need strong reading skills to learn and demonstrate their learning. Reading skills are not just about performing well in ...

Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series accounts for eight of the 10 most read books by 11- to 14-year-old boys, while girls the same age enjoy a wider range of authors and genres ...

Too many boys think reading for fun isn’t “cool.” This isn’t breaking news. Global studies from the mid-2000s found boys are less likely to read for pleasure than girls, a trend that continues today.

When holidays or pandemics shut down schools, gender differences in children's reading habits widen; boys stop reading, while girls continue, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen ...

Boys consistently read less, and less well, than girls. On Scholastic’s 2016 survey of over 2000 U.S. children, ages 6-17, only 52% of boys (versus 72% of girls) said they liked reading books over the ...