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 ...

Comprehension strategy instruction has a solid research base. Teacher guides on evidence-based practices from the What Works Clearinghouse recommend teaching students across grade levels how to ...

The best way to boost students’ reading comprehension is to expand their knowledge and vocabulary by teaching them history, science, literature, and the arts, using curricula that guide kids ...

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been ...

In 2023, the Reading Recovery Council of North America filed a lawsuit against the state of Ohio, where the organization is ...

Teaching based on this research includes phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. It is not a specific program or intervention or phonics-based programs that drill phonics ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — March is National Reading Month, a time to reinforce your own good reading habits and teach them to your kids. “There are so many benefits of reading with your ...

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who ...

Letters to the Editor: No, the ‘science of reading’ isn’t just about teaching phonics Gov. Gavin Newsom reads a book to kindergarteners at the Washington Elementary School in Sacramento in 2019.