Reading Orwellian novels and watching Black Mirror used to be an entertaining form of escapism. But nowadays, these kinds of ...

Digital platforms can help make reading aloud independently more engaging and get kids excited about literacy practice.

THE new numbers are bad, but they shouldn’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention. The Second Congressional Commission on Education (EdCom 2) cited distilled Flemms (Functional Literacy, ...

(TNS) — What barriers do students face when asked to read text and show their comprehension of it? This question was posed by an English/language arts teacher and educational consultant to a group of ...

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 ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about how AI fits into reading practices, and I recently shared a guide exploring this topic in ...

There’s been a lot of concern about phonics instruction in recent months, sparked by an illuminating new audio documentary. But there’s another aspect of reading—comprehension—that is equally crucial, ...

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 ...