Many parents don't realize how much this simple habit matters until teachers point out the striking differences it can create ...

Teachers in all content areas can create opportunities for fluency practice to help get students reading fluidly and expressively.

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 ...

Norway’s "U-turn" on screen-based learning holds lessons for American readers.

How speech therapy and reading intervention can transform support for students with language-based learning differences.

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 ...

The “science of reading” includes far more than phonics—its end goal is student comprehension of increasingly complex text. To be successful, schools must introduce students to extensive content, ...

Graphic novels have the potential to build reading-to-learn skills, such as fluency and (ultimately) reading comprehension.

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 ...

Lucy Calkins, a Columbia University education professor, has misguided New York City teachers on showing children how to read and comprehend books. YouTube Every teacher of struggling readers has ...