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 ...
As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Nov 02, 2020, 01:28pm EST Nov 02, 2020, 01:28pm EST This article is ...
“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...
Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...
Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...
There are several cognitive processes involved in learning to read. Monkey Business Images/Getty Images Any parent who has watched a child learning to read knows that it is a journey. Various skills ...