The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the ...

Educators need more professional development at the intersection of early childhood education and literacy instruction, ...

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading and spelling instruction, new ACU research shows.

The other group got “business as usual,” which generally means a focus on reading comprehension skills, like “finding the main idea,” over substantive content. Children in both groups had ...

Kids now spend 1.5 more hours on screens ... their doctor’s instructions because they don’t have the reading comprehension. The same for contracts and directions. “The big message is there ...

Although, problems may occur in any area, decoding, comprehension, or retention, the root of most reading problems, in the view of many experts, is decoding. Reading Facts Roughly 85% of children ...