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 ...

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.

Includes updates and/or revisions. The $1 billion-a-year Reading First program has had no measurable effect on students’ reading comprehension, on average, although participating schools are spending ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...

If Americans truly understood the devastating effects our approach to reading instruction has on black and brown children, they would be in the streets demanding change. Recent events have shined a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one classroom, students identified literal and nonliteral language: an exercise in labeling text features. Students defined the ...

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, ...