The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...

Reading is a fundamental human capacity that recruits and tunes brain circuitry subserving several neurocognitive skills. Individual differences in reading-related skills are largely influenced by ...

“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, ...

Sorenson attributes her students’ language and content growth to the school’s intensive training for teachers across the ...

Q: I want to share my suggestions for the parents of children who have difficulty reading or don’t enjoy reading, because I also had difficulty reading as a child and young adult. I didn’t remember ...

This paper diagnoses the reading skills at the onset of second grade after one (final) trimester of first grade, with online schooling as a result of COVID-19. It also describes and assesses the ...

For young children, taking the first step towards reading can feel like an uphill task. This is because a child might find it easy to recognize individual letters but combining them into sentences can ...

Across the U.S., schools are rethinking how they teach reading, guided by decades of research known as the science of reading. This movement emphasizes explicit, systematic phonics instruction, ...

Teaching reading has always been a subject of debate, a debate that involves a balancing act of multiple factors. Currently, the “reading wars” are best embodied by debates that are centered on the ...

Stanford’s Educational Opportunity Project report on the decade’s decline in reading scores should have us adults asking one ...