In the paper, the researchers call for more focus on evidence-based reading comprehension—potentially through legislative avenues, similar to recently passed state laws around teaching evidence ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

So Wijekumar worked with the teachers to scrap their textbook instructions and teach her way. I consulted with Marissa Filderman, a respected reading expert who has reviewed the literature on ...

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 ...

New York City students are struggling with reading, but principals are worried that the rollout of a new teaching method is happening too quickly.

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Teaching text structure can help.

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 ...

A House leader called on the DepEd to speed up the teaching of reading comprehension to young learners amid the country’s long-standing problem of how it fares in large-scale assessments.