Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...
How does reading comprehension change between screens and paper?Have you ever felt that after reading a long text on a ...
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 ...
“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...
In first and second grade, most children learn to read. Beginning in third grade, they’re expected to read to learn. They may be assigned to find facts on the Internet for a project on aquatic mammals ...
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 ...
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 simplest ...
High comprehension in gifted individuals is not about having a large amount of knowledge, but rather the speed and depth with which they grasp the big picture and essence from minimal information.
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