Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

Reading comprehension instruction doesn't line up with what the evidence shows can work—and it goes on way too long. A recent meta-analysis confirms that it’s best to teach reading comprehension ...

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Alex Quigley is an English teacher and Director of Huntington Research School, York, England. He blogs at www.theconfidentteacher.com and he is the author of ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’, published by ...

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 ...

A survey of 284 Australian primary school teachers looking at the strategies used to teach reading comprehension, reveals practices that are ad hoc, with little agreement in the Australian primary ...

A lifelong educator and advocate for children, Principal Diane Daprocida of P.S. 94, an elementary school in the Bronx, says she has been waiting for one thing since she started running the school 10 ...

During moral education class, do you find yourself constantly asking, 'How do the characters feel?'You ask about the protagonist's feelings.The children answer, 'sad' or 'happy'.You write it on the ...

In today's society, the child who doesn't learn to read does not make it in life. If children don't learn to read early enough, if they don't learn to read with comprehension, if they don't read ...

How does reading comprehension change between screens and paper?Have you ever felt that after reading a long text on a ...

This KS3 reading comprehension resource uses a carefully adapted extract from Oliver Twist to strengthen key reading and analytical skills in Year 7. Pupils engage with Oliver’s early experiences in ...

This Lower KS2 reading comprehension resource is based on the World Cup 2026, a high-interest, real-world topic designed to engage Year 3 and Year 4 pupils while developing key reading skills in line ...