Post by Ben Seipel, University of Wisconsin-River Falls/California State University, Chico; with Gina Biancarosa, University of Oregon; Sarah E. Carlson, Georgia State University; and Mark L. Davison, ...

Students from Burley Primary and Slack Elementary taught Lufkin ISD trustees a lesson in inference and cognitive reading skills Thursday night. The students interacted with board members to actively ...

Educators don’t need to choose between building students’ knowledge and teaching reading comprehension strategies. The question isn’t whether to teach strategies—it’s how to do it and when. “Are we ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the roles of reading strategies in literacy instruction? There is little disagreement that reading strategies have a role in literacy instruction. There is, ...

Teaching a child to decode words is a critical early step in reading instruction. But just because children can read words doesn’t mean they understand them. “Reading comprehension, in its simplest ...

There’s been a lot of concern about phonics instruction in recent months, sparked by an illuminating new audio documentary. But there’s another aspect of reading—comprehension—that is equally crucial, ...

Reading Comprehension is a crucial section in the CAT exam, assessing a candidate's ability to understand and analyze complex passages. It requires skills in comprehension, logical reasoning, and ...

Traditionally, these reading comprehension measures have been able to determine whether or not a student struggles with comprehension, but unable to determine the root cause of the struggle. Although ...

Alex Quigley is an English teacher and Director of Huntington Research School, York, England. He blogs at www.theconfidentteacher.com and he is the author of ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’, published by ...