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 ...

Reading comprehension instruction doesn't line up with what the evidence shows can work—and it goes on way too long. A recent meta-analysis confirms that it’s best to teach reading comprehension ...

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 ...

Even though I say I've read the test material many times, my Japanese score just won't go up. Math and English scores go up ...

In first and second grade, most children learn to read. Beginning in third grade, they’re expected to read to learn. They may be assigned to find facts on the Internet for a project on aquatic mammals ...

Research in education rarely draws on the substantial body of scientific evidence on how learning works. That’s a problem for teachers, students—and the rest of us. Researchers and academics focus on ...

More evidence is in: Reading from screens harms comprehension. According to a new meta-analysis of nearly three dozen research studies published over the past decade, reading from paper has a small, ...

When adding comprehension questions to a video, it can be difficult to decide how strict the difficulty should be, such as ...