This is the first of two stories focusing on teaching Milwaukee students to read. This is part of the By the Book series, which examines reading curriculum, instructional methods and solutions in K-12 ...

Andrea Yon is used to helping students in need. At the Williston-Elko Middle School in rural South Carolina, where she has taught for seven years, more than 3 out of every 4 students are poor enough ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

LAWRENCE — New research from the University of Kansas has found an intervention based on the science of reading and math effectively helped English learners boost their comprehension, visualize and ...

Some of the most academically vulnerable students are also more likely to have basic vision problems that have been overlooked, new research finds. The study in the Journal of the American Medical ...

The best way to build knowledge is to immerse children in social studies, science, and the arts — the very subjects that have been marginalized to make more time for comprehension skill practice, ...

Bibliotherapy is “the therapeutic approach employing books and other forms of literature, typically alongside more traditional therapy modalities, to support a patient’s mental health,” according to ...

Johns is the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Most recently, he is the author of The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America One of the ...

A study published in the journal Psychological Medicine in June 2023 examined the possible benefits of reading for pleasure. This topic of research is very important since reading for pleasure seems ...