A 2025 paper shows that hardly any evidence-based practices for teaching reading comprehension have filtered into the classroom.

Literacy skills—such as applying comprehension strategies, analyzing text, writing about texts, and discussing them—are taught in the context of this content.

Learn where students struggle, what types of materials educators use, and their perceptions of students' stamina and pleasure reading.

At Barnard's reading pilot walkthrough. The class unit focused on comprehension and learning by reading closely. The teacher tasked the students with identifying the people, places, and events ...

Entering a contentious debate over reading, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes that districts base literacy instruction on decades of research known as “the science of reading” as the next step to getting all ...

The reading wars pit the science of reading instructional approach against whole language or balanced literacy approach.

Reading Out Loud In a typical primary school classroom, one literacy exercise involves having children read aloud. Poor readers become painfully obvious at this time.

Superintendent Iline Tracey said reading comprehension is an important measure that the district wants to do more of with student assessments in the future. She added that the district has students ...

The opposing sides in the “reading wars” tend to advocate for the use of curricula that’s based either on the Science of Reading or on Balanced Literacy, but it does not have to be an 'either/or' ...

The state Department of Education has launched a new initiative aimed at improving literacy among Louisiana’s students, many of whom lag behind when it comes to reading skills.

But they have no value without comprehension. Countries around the world are paying increasing attention to reading comprehension, as indicated by improving results in international literacy tests.

Nashville isn’t alone in its struggle to increase reading scores, but is taking a community-wide approach to address the issue.