Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

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The summer months away from school can be a critical time in a child’s reading development. Even before the coronavirus shut down schools, educators have been warning parents about the effects of ...

Fordham Institute and the RAND Corp., asked more than 1,200 K-3 teachers in the fall of 2025 about their perspectives on reading instruction, the practices they use in their classrooms, the training ...

The advantages of tutorial work need no repetition in these columns. The contact with more mature minds, the opportunity offered for intellectual stimulus, have transformed the system from an ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...