The findings of the latest National Achievement Survey for Class 5, published by the National Council of Education Research and Training this week, are predictably grim and show that a vast majority ...

Oklahoma has consistently lingered toward the bottom of state rankings when it comes to reading comprehension with elementary ...

Make a chart with the five Ws and an H to help young readers build reading comprehension. Reviewing the five Ws (who, what, where, when and why) and an H (how) after reading a text can improve ...

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 ...

A federal study of supplemental programs that are intended to improve students’ reading comprehension has found that only one of the three programs examined actually did so. The report, released May 5 ...

The very first year I taught middle school science, I found myself teaching more reading lessons than I had ever expected—and that didn’t change when I switched to a middle school math classroom two ...

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 ...

Reading scores are improving in Alabama, but thousands of third graders could still be held back this year if they can’t catch up over the summer. When adjusted to current benchmarks, about 88% of ...