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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 ...

Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...

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Our kids do not read well. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, approximately 30 percent of students read well below their grade levels—it varies a bit by age—and another 30 ...

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 ...

Reading comprehension goals show up in IEPs once a student can decode text with enough accuracy and fluency to access meaning. At that point, sounding out words is no longer the primary barrier.

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 ...

The recent NAEP scores have confirmed a sobering truth: Our schools remain in the grips of a literacy crisis. Across the country, too many children are struggling to read, and too many teachers are ...

Professors often think students already possess effective reading comprehension skills, yet because students now need to read and comprehend information outside of class in much greater depth than ...

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