Multilingual students read and comprehend more when teaching materials are culturally relevant to them, as veteran North Carolina educator Terri Ashchi ...

Even for people who love books, finding the opportunity to read can be a challenge. Many, then, rely on audiobooks, a ...

The “science of reading” includes far more than phonics—its end goal is student comprehension of increasingly complex text. To be successful, schools must introduce students to extensive content, ...

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

Research in education rarely draws on the substantial body of scientific evidence on how learning works. That’s a problem for teachers, students—and the rest of us. Researchers and academics focus on ...

When a dyslexic person sits down to read, letters seem to move around on the page. Words don't appear the same as they do to other readers. The National Institutes of Health classifies dyslexia as a ...

“School Excels in Reading by Sticking With What Works” (April 1) mischaracterizes the whole-language approach to teaching reading. Whole language does not simply “encourage children to intuit the nuts ...