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 ...

There are many literacy textbooks available but no clear way to determine which ones are the best – and most likely to turn ...

What barriers do students face when asked to read text and show their comprehension of it? This question was posed by an English/language arts teacher and educational consultant to a group of ...

For many adults, reading is a fact of life often taken for granted. For them, there’s usually a great distance between learning to read and being a reader, but for young students, reading ...

Recent STAAR test results show that while Texas students increased literacy rates slightly, nearly half of the students in third to eighth grade still can’t read on grade level. For the students who ...

Five years ago, the Bethlehem Area School District laid out a bold goal -- it wanted to have all of its students reading on grade level by third grade -- and set out to make that happen. The district ...

A study from the University of Valencia found that print reading could boost skills by six to eight times more than digital reading Reading print texts improves comprehension more than reading digital ...

While the world celebrated International Literacy Day, South Africa faced a harsh reality: 81% of Grade 4 learners reportedly can decode words but cannot read for meaning, according to PIRLS 2021.