Well-planned read-alouds can enhance critical thinking, comprehension, and engagement across disciplines—and age levels.

Parents may feel powerless to influence their children’s reading habits. But, in reality, they can dramatically impact kids’ ...

So, what's keeping kids from growing genuine reading skills ... usage and the COVID-19 pandemic for negatively affecting reading comprehension, competency, and focus. “It is no coincidence ...

Children should read from books and not screens ... be six to eight times higher than if they read on digital devices for the same amount of time. Reading comprehension is the ability to read text, ...

Perhaps the most famous piece of evidence for this knowledge-centered theory of reading comprehension is the “baseball study,” in which researchers gave children an excerpt about baseball and then ...

Reading is a fundamental base for academic learning. About 10 million children in the US have some sort of reading disorder. It’s not easy for all children to learn how ...

Fall is the perfect time for parents to snuggle under a blanket with the kids and read books, and Naperville Public Library ...

The ability to separate and absorb data is important, but consumption of the written word is so much more than that.

But with reading, foundational skills and higher-order processes—let’s call them “comprehension”—should develop simultaneously along two separate paths. Along one path, children who aren ...

Spelling and fluency did not respond well, but there was some improvement in reading comprehension. Gains were maintained in most children at follow-up. Characteristics that impeded reading and ...

Ello, the AI reading companion that aims to support kids struggling to read, launched a new product on Monday that allows kids to participate in the story-creation process. Called “Storytime ...

The other group got “business as usual,” which generally means a focus on reading comprehension skills, like “finding the main idea,” over substantive content. Children in both groups had ...