Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

A new study suggests that traditional learning activities like making notes remain critical for students' reading ...

Three key skills—academic language, perspective taking, and complex reasoning—can predict how well a student does with the kind of deep reading comprehension required in secondary school and beyond, ...

University of Georgia undergraduate education classes are tutoring reading skills with kindergarteners this spring in a local high poverty school. We are trying to support the children as they get on ...

The GMAT Reading Comprehension passages test your endurance and focus as much as your comprehension - they are dense, complicated and boring! And they come on the heels of the AWA and math sections, ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

What makes a good reader? First, you have to know how to read the words on a page and understand them -- but there's a higher-level step to reading comprehension. You have to tie together the words ...

Reading Comprehension has always been an important part of the CAT exam. In CAT 2014, there were 4 passages with 16 questions out of a total of 100 questions. In CAT 2013, there were 3 passages with 9 ...

While this problem has received considerable attention, no clear explanation has emerged. In my recent PhD thesis, I considered a crucial, but often overlooked, piece of the puzzle – the curriculum ...

WASHINGTON -- The $6 billion reading program at the center of President Bush's signature education law has failed to make a difference in how well children understand what they read, according to a ...