Schools spend hours every week teaching comprehension skills and strategies in "reading" class, without results. Using those techniques in history, science, and other content-focused classes could ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

Misconceptions about how to help kids understand what they read are widespread, and some experts are unintentionally adding to the confusion about comprehension "skills" and strategies. Some ...

Alex Quigley is an English teacher and Director of Huntington Research School, York, England. He blogs at www.theconfidentteacher.com and he is the author of ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’, published by ...

The Reading Teacher, Vol. 64, No. 3, Reading in Grades 4-6: Focus on Expository Reading (NOVEMBER 2010), pp. 166-178 (13 pages) ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It might surprise some parents but the teaching of reading to primary school children can be a slightly random affair, slightly ...

A lot of people are concerned that American kids aren't learning to read. And rightly so. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows only about a third of fourth-graders are ...

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 ...

The authors investigate whether the choice of college textbook affects students' comprehension of the material. Forty-eight students from educational psychology courses were randomly assigned to one ...