By encouraging students to sketch visual notes during a read-aloud, teachers can turn doodles into deeper learning—and help ...

How we remember, understand and pay attention is simply worse whenever we read on the screen, writes Shakil Rabbi, who suggests two ways to help students deal with that.

Make a chart with the five Ws and an H to help young readers build reading comprehension. Reviewing the five Ws (who, what, where, when and why) and an H (how) after reading a text can improve ...

Whatever the outcome of the election, Americans will remain deeply divided. Schools can help us learn to disagree respectfully—and boost literacy at the same time.

Comprehension unlocks countless doors to success in school, work, and leisure reading. Understanding how to read will only get you so far in life.

Being able to read things quickly is great, but only if you’re able to comprehend what you’re reading. Blazing through 200 pages of reading in an hour or two is certainly impressive, but if ...

Test scores weren’t improving, and learning outcomes weren’t where they needed to be. So it was time for a change, literacy ...

Working with kindergarteners reminds us how important vocabulary is for reading comprehension. Kids come to school with widely different vocabularies, but adults can help!

Many reading comprehension questions depend on understanding a passage’s structure: how sentences and paragraphs relate to each other and fit together to make an argument.