Schools spend hours every week teaching comprehension skills and strategies in "reading" class, without results. Using those techniques in history, science, and other content-focused classes could ...

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 ...

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, ...

Now that we have got early word reading in place (or nearly), it may be helpful to think about what we know about the ongoing process of developing reading skills as pupils move through school. How do ...

The “science of reading” movement has brought sweeping changes to the curriculum teachers use in the classroom and the professional development they take—but educators still voice substantial ...

Why Deeply Diving Into Content Could Be the Key to Reading Comprehension Natalie Wexler contends that elementary schools have been teaching reading comprehension as a bundle of skills that can be ...

The most fundamental responsibility of schools is teaching students to read. Because reading affects all other academic achievement and is associated with social, emotional, economic, and physical ...

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 ...

Everything you need for Reading and Reading Comprehension and your IEP: IEP goals, strategies, evaluations, and more.

Support your students in developing key reading and comprehension skills with this Year 8 English resource based on the powerful opening scene of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Ideal for lower ...