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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 ...

Thousands of young people and teachers have gathered for a mass reading class, as part of an attempt to break a world record. The attempt, held in Fratton Park in Portsmouth on World Book Day, was ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hi, welcome to today's Mini Lesson. I'm Annaka. Thanks for joining me. Today our learning intention is ...

Reading comprehension instruction doesn't line up with what the evidence shows can work—and it goes on way too long. A recent meta-analysis confirms that it’s best to teach reading comprehension ...

The State Board of Education is hearing public comment about the Texas Education Agency's proposed reading and math materials this week during its September meeting. The materials, known as Open ...

A study from the University of Valencia found that print reading could boost skills by six to eight times more than digital reading Reading print texts improves comprehension more than reading digital ...

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, ...

(We’re a nonprofit. Your donation is tax-deductible and processed securely.) The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points ...

MANILA, Philippines — One of the Department of Education’s most wide-scale attempts to arrest students’ declining reading comprehension skills will start on Friday with the rollout of a new weekly ...

South African learners consistently struggle with reading comprehension, performing poorly in both international and local assessments. A significant issue is that 81% of grade 4 learners (aged 9 or ...