A new study suggests that traditional learning activities like making notes remain critical for students' reading ...

What is reading comprehension or understanding? Below is one contemporary definition: “Reading comprehension is the reconstructing, interpreting, revaluating, reacting emotionally, and creating new ...

Our testing system is based on the idea that reading comprehension can be measured independently of what kids know, but science indicates otherwise. The American education system rests in large part ...

I became a disciple of E.D. Hirsch, Jr. early in my teaching career for one simple reason. His theories about reading comprehension—and his alone—described precisely what I witnessed every day in my ...

Jeana Wallace never enjoyed reading as a child. The books she read in school didn’t interest her and “constant deadlines made ...

Daniel Willingham has long been interested in how learning and memory work. But about 15 years ago, the University of Virginia professor of psychology decided to move beyond the study of cognition and ...

Reading. It’s a building block toward learning and understanding. But not enough young people are trying to learn how to read. New federal testing data shows that reading scores of teens in the U.S.

But adapting a state’s reading law for older students isn’t as simple as changing existing language from “K-3" to “K-8,” said ...

First grade teacher Rita McCord instructs students in reading at Hiawatha Elementary School in Hiawatha on Feb. 1. The Cedar Rapids Community School District began training special education teachers ...

Reading fluency is the ability to read with proper speed, accuracy, and expression. Children, and people in general, must be able to read fluently in order to understand what they’re reading. This ...

Will there ever be another Harry Potter? Between 1997 and 2007, it seemed like every child (and even their parents) was reading J.K. Rowling’s timeless fantasy novels about a skinny, bespectacled ...

Many CAT 2025 aspirants struggle with the Reading Comprehension section. In this expert guide, IIM Sambalpur professor Kakoli Sen shares golden RC tips on reading strategy, paragraph roles, author’s ...