A new review paper from researchers across six different universities finds that English ... low-level comprehension questions. Teachers ask questions about discrete facts in the passage, students ...

Developing students’ ability to speak and listen is a key component of early-reading-comprehension instruction—important for all children but especially critical for English learners.

Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...

More time was spent on reading comprehension instruction in reading or English class, but it was still just 23 percent ... without considering whether the questions are appropriate for the reading ...

“Reading comprehension, in its simplest form ... found that middle schoolers asked to read a passage about a baseball game had a hard time understanding it if they didn’t have background ...

While I have written and spoken out extensively about the harm of teaching primarily in English when not the natural language of students because comprehension is what counts the most. If a student ...