Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness, ...

Students need to reach a “knowledge threshold” to boost reading comprehension in a new subject, and some academic keywords are more critical than others, finds a new study in the journal Psychological ...

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 ...

The film follows Jack, a student who realizes his vocabulary and reading skills are lacking after struggling with a spelling word. Inspired by a classmate, Sue, he begins to write down unfamiliar ...