Many states have recently enacted laws or rules designed to ensure that teachers are well versed in evidence-based reading instruction. Here are some highlights. Requires districts to provide core ...

At-risk college freshmen have difficulty reading expository material at a level of proficiency necessary for understanding and integrating information from their textbooks. This study compared an ...

“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness, ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once ...

New York needs to get back to the basics when it comes to teaching kids how to read, Gov. Kathy Hochul says. The Governor announced Wednesday that she wants to ditch the trendy “whole language” method ...

New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

Some parents are having trouble making sense of their kids' reading assignments while schools are closed. The explanation is a deeply entrenched by misguided approach to teaching comprehension.

Hear how districts are improving reading comprehension scores in grades 3-5 with a web-based program called Headsprout, which uses individualized, adaptive instruction to meet each child’s learning ...

Expansion responds to growing demand for individualized reading support as families search for trusted Chicago reading tutors during National Reading Month In recognition of National Reading Month, ...