When you read a text and show you understand it by answering questions, this is called comprehension. You use comprehension skills all the time in everyday life. For example, when you work out ...

Research shows that asking students to monitor and correct their own understanding of text as they read can boost their ...

Becky Sullivan, director of K-12 English language arts curriculum and instruction for the Sacramento County Office of Education, said it’s important for educators to recognize which reading skills ...

In the English class he taught before becoming a dean last year at Bentonville High School in Arkansas, students engaged with plays, poetry and articles but read just one book together as a class. “At ...

This module, which introduces you to English Literature from the early sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries, runs across the Autumn and Spring semesters. Below is a list of the texts, all from ...

Two groups have aimed to find consensus in one contested area of the ongoing reading wars: what the “science of reading” should look like for English learners. In a statement released in ...

Core reading for English Literature modules. Let us now turn to literature. In addition to the optional modules you choose, in your first year, you will all take LIT120 Renaissance to Revolution as ...