Rather than promoting deeper literacy skills, the phonics-based approach 'may unintentionally encourage teachers to focus on ...

Schools spend hours every week teaching comprehension skills and strategies in "reading" class, without results. Using those techniques in history, science, and other content-focused classes could ...

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 ...

As states and districts overhaul the way their schools teach reading, many are banking on one specific professional-learning program to propel this transformation: Language Essentials for Teachers of ...

As a journalism major, most of my classes have consisted of reading new articles or analyses — shorter content and, every once in a while, a scholarly paper. So for about a year or two, I didn’t read ...

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, ...

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 ...

Before diving into a document, define what you want to achieve. Are you looking for specific data points, seeking a summary, or identifying key insights? This focus will help you filter out irrelevant ...

All of us obviously want to help our students become better writers. But are there ways we can “double-dip,” too—in other words, help them improve their writing AND also use writing instruction to ...

SEATTLE, May 1, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, Bamboo Learning announced Bamboo® Books, its third voice-first, free, education-focused Alexa skill to help children (from pre-readers to advanced ...

Hyperlexia first appeared in the literature in a 1967 paper describing young children with reading skills exceeding their language comprehension skills (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967). The initial ...