Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

The March 20 article, “Reading Comprehension Teaching Has Improved—But Not Nearly Enough,” made me think back to my early days as a curriculum writer. I was drafting a lesson on the figurative ...

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Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

Reading comprehension instruction doesn't line up with what the evidence shows can work—and it goes on way too long. A recent meta-analysis confirms that it’s best to teach reading comprehension ...

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 ...

In districts across the country, educators are continuing to support students with post-pandemic learning recovery. Many students are still reading below the level appropriate for their grade–roughly ...

Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once ...