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

Test a group of eighth graders who speak English at home. Is their Reading Comprehension better than non-English speakers?

When C.J. reached seventh grade, he was still reading at a second-grade level. Thomas bursts into tears upon learning that his reading performance actually declined significantly during first grade.

Teaching a child to decode words is a critical early step in reading instruction. But just because children can read words doesn’t mean they understand them. “Reading comprehension, in its ...

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below grade level on recent spring reading tests, new state data shows. That’s ...

The results surprised Joe Pizzo, a 7th grade integrated language-arts teacher at Black River Middle School in Chester, N.J., who has been in the classroom for five decades.

Recent STAAR test results show that while Texas students increased literacy rates slightly, nearly half of students in third ...

President Donald Trump’s first joint address to Congress was delivered at a seventh-grade reading level, according to a common measure of comprehension that accounts for sentence length and the ...

On Sept. 13, Michelle Jennings, Williamsburg, submitted her concerns regarding S.E. Hinton’s book “The Outsiders,” in accordance with Board Policy 605.3, which allows a member of the school ...

The emerging answer is that yes, young teens seem to be reading less and enjoying reading less. But the decline in book reading might not be the main culprit in our national comprehension problem. And ...