Consider supporting our stories and becoming a member today. Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned ...

Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension instruction to the list. A new review paper from researchers across six different universities finds that English ...

Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new content and the vocabulary that underpins key concepts in that content. It’s correlated with students ...

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 ...

But just because children can read words doesn’t mean they understand them. “Reading comprehension, in its simplest form, is the ability to make meaning of what you are reading,” says Carly ...

The best response to plummeting test scores would be hard to institute Although learning to identify sounds, letters and words is necessary for reading comprehension, it is not enough. Effective ...

How are Executive Functions Related to Reading Comprehension? Executive functioning and reading comprehension can be conceptualized into three components (Chang, 2020): Cognitive flexibility ...