Focusing on evidence-based teaching practices is critical when teaching students how to read, says this letter to the editor.

It’s the most basic hurdle in reading, and the strategies a teacher gives can make the difference in a student’s literacy ...

Let that sink in. Nearly half of our children finish primary school without basic reading comprehension. If they struggle with simple text at age 10, how will they navigate textbooks, job ...

Whether you like novels or non-fiction books, reading has many benefits. When you read, you increase both your intellectual ...

Trujillo said even reading by itself and having some basic reading comprehension prepares them for life. He used inference as an example: When you see someone walk in a building with rain boots ...

Researchers have found that reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge are related. A student with greater reading comprehension is more likely to have a larger vocabulary, and vice-versa.

and judges who demand comprehensible answers to basic questions. The most vivid example of this squeeze came on Saturday when one of the department’s senior immigration lawyers, Erez Reuveni ...

So, summer’s coming. Which means 1) your kids are about to forget how to read, and 2) your school is probably sending home a ...

when discussing the important role of background knowledge in reading comprehension (all cited in An, 2013). The fundamental principle of the schema theory assumes that written text does not carry ...