And while reading teachers spend less than a quarter of the class time devoted to reading working on comprehension, that’s still magnitudes more than the less than 1 percent of time research ...

Experts have long known that reading skills develop before the first day of kindergarten, but new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from the Harvard Graduate ...

A middle-school teacher in Riverside County, Calif., had students generate keywords from a section of a book, use them to ...

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

Claim: University researchers demonstrate the order of letters within words is unimportant to reading comprehension. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr ...

The NAEP reading scores metric is one of many that factor into the overall Best States rankings. See the Best States methodology for a detailed look at the data behind the analysis.

Robertson spoke about the research base behind reading-writing connections during an Education Week forum last week, featuring researchers, teachers, and district leaders, about writing and the ...

Hyperlexia first appeared in the literature in a 1967 paper describing young children with reading skills exceeding their language comprehension skills (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967). The initial ...

Here's where kids and teens can get freebies for completing their summer reading Experts recommend that kids read at least 15 minutes a day to keep up with their learning level.