Happy New Year! As you ease into the post-holiday workweek, you might want to check out an interesting conversation about reading that’s going on over at the Core Knowledge blog. It started with a ...

Four school districts in major urban areas using the science of reading found while students are grasping basic literacy ...

The reading-test scores of 4th graders have risen. But, somehow, that improvement has not resulted in higher reading scores for grade 8 and beyond. What’s the explanation? Why don’t later advances in ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hi, welcome to today's Mini Lesson. I'm Annaka. Thanks for joining me. Today our learning intention is ...

I became a disciple of E.D. Hirsch, Jr. early in my teaching career for one simple reason. His theories about reading comprehension—and his alone—described precisely what I witnessed every day in my ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

There’s been a lot of concern about phonics instruction in recent months, sparked by an illuminating new audio documentary. But there’s another aspect of reading—comprehension—that is equally crucial, ...

This research was partially funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF). While this problem has received considerable attention, no clear explanation has emerged. In my recent PhD thesis, I ...

When you read a text and show you understand it by answering questions, this is called comprehension. You use comprehension skills all the time in everyday life. For example, when you work out what a ...