More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below grade level on recent spring reading tests, new state data shows. That’s ...

And while reading teachers spend less than a quarter of the class time devoted to reading working on comprehension, that’s still magnitudes more than the less than 1 percent of time research ...

Experts have long known that reading skills develop before the first day of kindergarten, but new research published in the ...

Faced with this predicament, many college professors feel they have no choice but to assign less reading and lower their expectations. Victoria Kahn, who has taught literature at UC Berkeley since ...

Their teachers received 16 hours of training in how to teach reading comprehension this way and also delivered traditional analog reading lessons to their students. After six months, students who ...

About 16,238 third graders failed South Carolina reading tests last year. That number has been nearly cut in half.

Active reading strategies: Encourage students to engage with texts actively. This means underlining key points, jotting down questions in the margins, and summarizing main ideas after each section.

There's much more reading in college than in high school. ... American educational psychologist Francis P. Robinson introduced this method of reading comprehension and retention in 1946.

Decades of testing-centered instruction, a pandemic, and more have left a generation of college students unable to handle the usual reading load. The Week US Edition ...

So, yes, reading in the U.S. is in a state of emergency. Yes, college students — and everyone else — are reading fewer novels. However, if we want to point fingers, we should start with ourselves.

In order to progress in the games, students must correctly answer reading comprehension questions that cover more than 100 different reading skills. Each are assigned a grade and difficulty level.

The Decline of Reading Skills. Let's face it: Reading isn't what it used to be. In the attention economy of the digital world, long-form content is often seen as a chore rather than a pleasure ...