Don't lose sight of your goal: to stay free enough to really comprehend and analyze the things you spend your time reading, and to spend your time reading things that enrich your life.

Want to understand more of what you read - even if the material is somewhat above your head? No problem - just follow educator Ann McNeal of Hampshire College's four-step guide for reading a ...

Studies have shown that readers use their background knowledge—vocabulary, facts, and conceptual understanding—to comprehend the text they read. Much of this evidence isn’t new.

And while reading teachers spend less than a quarter of the class time devoted to reading working on comprehension, that’s still magnitudes more than the less than 1 percent of time research ...

Increasing comprehension is a fundamental skill in the reading process, particularly in grades K-4. In some cases, children are able to read words and their comprehension difficulties go unnoticed.

I spoke to two experts about how to speed read to get through more books and articles—without sacrificing comprehension, so you can still soak up all those great benefits of reading.

One possible reason is that social studies is more likely to build the kind of knowledge and vocabulary that fuels reading comprehension.

Now she’s turned her attention to the other aspect of reading: comprehension, or—as the documentary is titled—"what the words say.” As always, Hanford’s reporting makes for great listening.

Comprehension becomes more challenging when the text is longer because you need to link together more facts and clues to understand what’s happening. You have to be an active reader.

On tests of reading comprehension, children in classes in which more meaningful reading is done outperform those in classes in which less reading is done. Stephen Krashen Professor Emeritus ...