Many struggling readers are held back by challenges with their working memory. When students cannot retain information long enough to make sense of what they’re reading, comprehension suffers, ...

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Recent STAAR test results show that while Texas students increased literacy rates slightly, nearly half of the students in third to eighth grade still can’t read on grade level. For the students who ...

Strong reading comprehension skills are one of the foundations of a successful academic career. According to the Institute of Reading Development, students with strong reading comprehension skills get ...

Discover the basics of speed reading, its origins, techniques, benefits, and potential drawbacks in improving reading ...

For years, research showed that print reading, whether for leisure or school, improved developing readers' ability to comprehend text. However, the explosive use of digital reading devices, constant ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...

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 ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once ...