Multilingual students read and comprehend more when teaching materials are culturally relevant to them, as veteran North Carolina educator Terri Ashchi ...

Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

Mesick Consolidated Schools has launched a "No Screens" Literacy initiative that replaces classroom technology with physical books and paper to improve student literacy and comprehension.

Elementary teachers should normalize mistakes, encourage partnering and reread familiar texts with students, experts say.

The “science of reading” includes far more than phonics—its end goal is student comprehension of increasingly complex text. To be successful, schools must introduce students to extensive content, ...

Those of you who have been delighted, vindicated, or intrigued by the recent uptick in conversation about adolescent literacy might find lots of food for thought in Daniel Willingham’s piece on The ...

Instructional strategies and routines to help all students better comprehend complex texts, with an emphasis on those students historically underserved by California schools. Comprehensive literacy ...

Kindergartners who got a literacy curriculum grounded in science topics had better reading comprehension than peers who got the standard approach focusing on general comprehension skills, according to ...

Parents, grandparents and community advocates have driven educational change before. That leadership is needed again.

The animation uses a technique called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP), wherein single words flash by quickly, one at a time, in the same spot on the screen. The animation starts at an average ...

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