Some components of reading comprehension don't lend themselves well to scientific study, with the result that one component--"skills and strategies"--has come to overshadow the others. The middle of a ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

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 ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...

Make a chart with the five Ws and an H to help young readers build reading comprehension. Reviewing the five Ws (who, what, where, when and why) and an H (how) after reading a text can improve ...

Learning to read is a higher brain function. Reading comprehension activates the cerebral cortex of a child’s brain. This part of the brain is important for complex cognitive tasks, but it’s also the ...

Recently, I worked with a group of elementary teachers in Iowa to select new reading textbooks and software. They wanted new ...

One of the leading issues in the modern era is the gradual decline of reading comprehension among us, students—that is, the gradual decrease in a student's ability to understand, interpret, and ...

Reading enjoyment is at its lowest level for two decades, according to the National Literacy Trust’s annual survey. This ...