Media coverage of the science of reading has focused on problems in teaching phonics. But if it doesn't also examine misunderstandings about how to teach reading comprehension, we're unlikely to see ...

Schools spend hours every week teaching comprehension skills and strategies in "reading" class, without results. Using those techniques in history, science, and other content-focused classes could ...

Alex Quigley is an English teacher and Director of Huntington Research School, York, England. He blogs at www.theconfidentteacher.com and he is the author of ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’, published by ...

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 ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Low statewide reading scores have sparked many advocates to call for California to adopt a so-called structured literacy curriculum that ...

Cody Beck reads a book that was assigned by his teacher at Grenada Middle School. Since April, Cody has been on a “homebound” program due to behavior, where he does his work at home and meets with a ...

A lifelong educator and advocate for children, Principal Diane Daprocida of P.S. 94, an elementary school in the Bronx, says she has been waiting for one thing since she started running the school 10 ...

In 2018, Associate Professor Dianna Townsend set out to explore different approaches to reading comprehension of informational texts for adolescent, multilingual students who were designated as ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A child reads a ...