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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Enhancing your child’s cognitive development is essential for their overall growth and learning. Here are ten activities that can help stimulate their brain and foster cognitive skills. Reading ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...

But Hackman also has another responsibility in class: developing students’ reading skills. For about 20 of the 80 minutes of almost every class, she engages her chemistry students in literacy skills, ...

This movement holds that other methods for teaching reading, which emphasize comprehension and developing a "love of reading," are responsible for students' poor reading scores across the country.

1. Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though).

Bentleigh West Primary School Principal Sarah Asome and grade 2 students (left to right) Oliver Cowen and Essie Barker. Credit: JOE ARMAO In Elementary Teachers’ Perspectives on Teaching Reading ...