A version of this article appeared in the April 16, 2025 edition of Education Week as Reading Comprehension Teaching Has Improved—But Not Nearly Enough. Most Popular Stories.

A middle-school teacher in Riverside County, Calif., had students generate keywords from a section of a book, use them to ...

Even evidence-based ways of improving reading comprehension can be poorly executed. Some teachers are leading reading discussions in their classrooms. Capin said he visited one such classroom a few ...

Research shows that asking students to monitor and correct their own understanding of text as they read can boost their ...

Teaching Reading for All is designed for grade 3-8 teachers, paraprofessionals, instructional coaches, and school-based leaders. Building on the work of BC faculty, the workshop reviews the current ...

Teaching a child to decode words is a critical early step in reading instruction. But just because children can read words doesn’t mean they understand them. “Reading comprehension, in its ...

Their teachers received 16 hours of training in how to teach reading comprehension this way and also delivered traditional analog reading lessons to their students. After six months, students who ...

Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ first year using an evidence-based curriculum to teach reading has been embraced by students and teachers despite a few shortcomings.

New York City students are struggling with reading, but principals are worried that the rollout of a new teaching method is happening too quickly. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Monday. We ...