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Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

There are a lot of things that have improved over the past 50 years, but are still far from perfect: Car safety. Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension instruction ...

Close reading isn’t just an academic buzzword—it’s a skill that can transform how we engage with complex texts, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth to dense philosophical works. By slowing down, noticing ...

The editorial “Tackling PH education crisis” (Editorial, 9/23/23), brings to mind teaching reading in the elementary grades before K-12. Grade 1 learners were in the first reading stage called reading ...

My generation, for lack of a better way to phrase it, sucks at reading. Because many of Gen Z’s formative years — notably middle and high school — were spent online, we became all too familiar with ...