I’ve been thinking a lot about how AI fits into reading practices, and I recently shared a guide exploring this topic in ...

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 ...

Study after study has shown that reading on screens just doesn’t have the same benefit as reading print books. But where does that leave teachers, who often are required to use both formats in their ...

More evidence is in: Reading from screens harms comprehension. According to a new meta-analysis of nearly three dozen research studies published over the past decade, reading from paper has a small, ...

Some components of reading comprehension don't lend themselves well to scientific study, with the result that one component--"skills and strategies"--has come to overshadow the others. The middle of a ...

Our testing system is based on the idea that reading comprehension can be measured independently of what kids know, but science indicates otherwise. The American education system rests in large part ...

A lot of people are concerned that American kids aren't learning to read. And rightly so. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows only about a third of fourth-graders are ...

Will there ever be another Harry Potter? Between 1997 and 2007, it seemed like every child (and even their parents) was reading J.K. Rowling’s timeless fantasy novels about a skinny, bespectacled ...

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