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DEAR. OTTER. DIRT. SQUIRT. ZYLAR? It goes by many clever (and slightly ridiculous) names, but all of those acronyms refer to the act of reading recreationally at school. Many of the benefits of silent ...

The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating ...

American educators have returned to the notion that shared background knowledge is essential to reading instruction, ending a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research in education rarely draws on the substantial body of scientific evidence on how learning works. That’s a problem for teachers, students—and the rest of us. Researchers and academics focus on ...

Learning to read is a higher brain function. Reading comprehension activates the cerebral cortex of a child’s brain. This part of the brain is important for complex cognitive tasks, but it’s also 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 ...