Since the school district implemented a new phonics program in Bradley Elementary School, 80% of the kids are now reading above grade level.

When shapes take on meaning as letters and those letters start to form words, it can be magical for children. It’s the first step into the wonderful world of reading. Yet, for many young students ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

Broad knowledge built through social studies, literature, art and science, is what turns students into strong readers — a ...

Pandemic-related learning loss has increased awareness of the complexity of learning to read in the United States. Educators in the Philadelphia region are taking action to improve students’ reading ...

An Alamance County middle school teacher helped her students analyze texts to improove their reading comprehension.

Strong reading comprehension skills are one of the foundations of a successful academic career. According to the Institute of Reading Development, students with strong reading comprehension skills get ...

(TNS) — Artificial intelligence might be able to drive cars, treat disease, and train your front door to recognize your face. But can it crack the toughest nut in literacy: Helping kids comprehend ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...

Reading comprehension instruction doesn't line up with what the evidence shows can work—and it goes on way too long. A recent meta-analysis confirms that it’s best to teach reading comprehension ...