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 ...

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 ...

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Too many teachers feel unprepared to teach reading comprehension and use “ad hoc” and inconsistent strategies, new research has found.

An eighth-grade history teacher in Dallas, Texas, says only two of her 110 students can read at grade level, a revelation ...