Many states have recently enacted laws or rules designed to ensure that teachers are well versed in evidence-based reading instruction. Here are some highlights. Requires districts to provide core ...

“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness, ...

Post by Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou & Kristen McMaster, University of Minnesota Making Inferences: The Cornerstone of Reading Comprehension Despite the persistent efforts of researchers, policy makers, ...

It’s been a big year for reading instruction. States have passed—or begun enacting—laws requiring evidence-based teaching for early learners. Hundreds of thousands of teachers have gone through new ...

AbstractCore reading programs provide the curriculum and guide the instruction for many classroom teachers. The purpose of this study was to conduct a curriculum analysis of comprehension instruction ...

A popular infographic gives the misleading impression that current approaches to reading comprehension are grounded in science. A simplified version of a decades-old report on reading instruction is ...

After years of stagnant reading scores in Wisconsin, some school districts are using federal pandemic aid to rethink their literacy instruction. Cudahy, a school district south of Milwaukee with about ...

The best way to build knowledge is to immerse children in social studies, science, and the arts — the very subjects that have been marginalized to make more time for comprehension skill practice, ...

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library sends free books in the mail to young children. Educator preparation programs in Pennsylvania are adjusting the way they teach reading to meet new, statewide ...

At-risk college freshmen have difficulty reading expository material at a level of proficiency necessary for understanding and integrating information from their textbooks. This study compared an ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once ...