Becoming a confident reader is a process that has a lot more to it than acquiring knowledge of letters and sounds. Fundamentally, a sense of ownership, interest ...

Two thirds of North Carolina kindergarten through third graders met reading test benchmarks at the end of the 2023-24 school year, about the same share as at the end of the last year. But the scores ...

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 ...

There are a lot of things that have improved over the past 50 years, but are still far from perfect: Car safety. Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension instruction ...

Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Apr 01, 2021, 05:47pm EDT Apr 03, 2021, 11:45am EDT This article is ...