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

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 ...

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

Danielle “Nell” Thompson and Terrie Noland lead schools from fragmented efforts to coherent literacy practices Literacy improvement efforts have swept across the nation by policy or by passion, yet ...

There are a lot of things that have improved over the past 50 years, but are still far from perfect: Car safety. Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension instruction ...

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...