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

The reading-test scores of 4th graders have risen. But, somehow, that improvement has not resulted in higher reading scores for grade 8 and beyond. What’s the explanation? Why don’t later advances in ...

The lesson for the day had the students reading One Giant Leap, which narrates the Apollo 11 moon landing. Yet two ...

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 ...

It can take years for students to acquire enough academic knowledge to make a difference in reading test scores. A new study suggests that standardized reading tests often fail to reflect what ...

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 ...

Pandemic-related learning loss has increased awareness of the complexity of learning to read in the United States. Educators in the Philadelphia region are taking action to improve students’ reading ...