Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

DEAR. OTTER. DIRT. SQUIRT. ZYLAR? It goes by many clever (and slightly ridiculous) names, but all of those acronyms refer to the act of reading recreationally at school. Many of the benefits of silent ...

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An Alamance County middle school teacher helped her students analyze texts to improove their reading comprehension.

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

Some components of reading comprehension don't lend themselves well to scientific study, with the result that one component--"skills and strategies"--has come to overshadow the others. The middle of a ...

Corpus Christi, Galena Park, and Fort Bend are among several Texas school districts participating in a study that will look at the impact of “collaborative strategic reading” on reading comprehension ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

Broad knowledge built through social studies, literature, art and science, is what turns students into strong readers — a return to the basics ...