An Alamance County middle school teacher helped her students analyze texts to improove their reading comprehension.

Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

The reading-test scores of 4th graders have risen. But, somehow, that improvement has not resulted in higher reading scores for grade 8 and beyond. What’s the explanation? Why don’t later advances in ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

It can take years for students to acquire enough academic knowledge to make a difference in reading test scores. A new study suggests that standardized reading tests often fail to reflect what ...

Broad knowledge built through social studies, literature, art and science, is what turns students into strong readers — a return to the basics ...

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 ...