Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

How do we teach reading comprehension? With native English speakers, I would have them read and I’d ask them questions, get their answers, we’d talk about it. With a second language student, I could ...

The idea that the “science” in reading instruction only supports phonics instruction has been “hard to dislodge,” said Maria ...

Teaching children to read is our moral duty and at the very heart of public education. Families should not have to hire tutors to fix what schools should be teaching correctly in the first place.

“If there is one primary responsibility of public elementary schools, it is to teach children how to read so they are set up for future success. California is failing at this job,” said Megan Potente, ...

Legislation passed in 2019 required Texas school districts to offer instruction based upon the science of reading. That was a ...

To unlock a child’s imagination and set them up for future success, we must also teach them how to read — and do so effectively. For decades, we’ve known a great deal about how children ...