Digital platforms can help make reading aloud independently more engaging and get kids excited about literacy practice.

Read Aloud feature is a useful function that allows an application or device to speak out text aloud in a synthetic voice. If you want to read aloud text in the Google Chrome browser, this tutorial ...

A mother and her tween daughter are browsing titles in a locally owned independent bookstore. The young girl is perusing the extraordinary Newbery Honor–winning memoir-in-verse Brown Girl Dreaming by ...

Reading aloud is useful not just with kids, but many friends and romantic partners also like being read to. Even at work, if you read aloud well, it can be engaging. Here, I offer tips on how to read ...

What ‘Read Aloud’ feature in Office applications like Outlook does, is fairly easy to understand. It reads back to text, that’s it! Officially, this feature is a part of Windows’ TTS ‘text-to-speech’ ...

Continuing our series on Read Alouds That Rock, we asked a number of literacy experts to share their strategies for integrating nonfiction storytimes in their work with young readers. Click here to ...

Any successful public speaking is meant to be eloquent. Its realization is very often the result of several exercises. Among these exercises, reading aloud is a very old practice whose origin lies in ...

When good readers read aloud, it sounds like music. The music of reading aloud is called reading prosody, or, in everyday language, reading with expression. Researchers looking at reading prosody ...

Regarding “Reading Aloud to Teens Gains Favor” (Jan. 6, 2010): When I would occasionally have my 10th grade world-history students read aloud, I found that nearly every one could read and decode words ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The leader of a local civic organization recently asked me if I would give a Zoom talk ...