Fordham Institute and the RAND Corp., asked more than 1,200 K-3 teachers in the fall of 2025 about their perspectives on reading instruction, the practices they use in their classrooms, the training ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

“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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one classroom, students identified literal and nonliteral language: an exercise in labeling text features. Students defined the ...

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 ...

“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library sends free books in the mail to young children. Educator preparation programs in Pennsylvania are adjusting the way they teach reading to meet new, statewide ...

Pandemic-related learning loss has increased awareness of the complexity of learning to read in the United States. Educators in the Philadelphia region are taking action to improve students’ reading ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the roles of reading strategies in literacy instruction? There is little disagreement that reading strategies have a role in literacy instruction. There is, ...

After years of stagnant reading scores in Wisconsin, some school districts are using federal pandemic aid to rethink their literacy instruction. Cudahy, a school district south of Milwaukee with about ...

This year marks the UK's National Year of Reading, which aims to rebuild good reading habits and enjoyment as child and ...