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

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

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, ...

Though not a new issue, pandemic-related learning loss has shed an increased spotlight on the complexity of reading proficiency in the United States. ReadWorks, a national nonprofit education ...

Previously in Virginia, the way reading comprehension was taught revealed gaps in learning for minority students and set a small percentage of students into the special education category. Now, ...

The lesson for the day had the students reading One Giant Leap, which narrates the Apollo 11 moon landing. Yet two ...

Deep reading is not simply decoding. It is a way of thinking, a cognitive process that involves the willingness to slow down, ...

Advocates for the science of reading need to expand their view of the science and push for the adoption of curricula that incorporate it. Opponents and even advocates of the “science of reading” often ...