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 ...

Something wasn’t adding up in Davidson County Schools. Students were making strong gains in reading in kindergarten and first ...

Three key skills—academic language, perspective taking, and complex reasoning—can predict how well a student does with the kind of deep reading comprehension required in secondary school and beyond, ...

Research in education rarely draws on the substantial body of scientific evidence on how learning works. That’s a problem for teachers, students—and the rest of us. Researchers and academics focus on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Susan Engel is a senior lecturer of developmental psychology and founding director of the Program in Teaching at Williams College. Catherine Snow is a linguist and professor of cognition and education ...

Why Deeply Diving Into Content Could Be the Key to Reading Comprehension Natalie Wexler contends that elementary schools have been teaching reading comprehension as a bundle of skills that can be ...

As many as 59% of Vietnamese students cannot use reading comprehension knowledge and information to handle real-world ...