The Advanced Education Research & Development Fund report offers insights into where older readers struggle and advice on how ...

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

The Advanced Education Research & Development Fund (AERDF), a national nonprofit focused on addressing pressing education challenges, released today a new report that offers research-backed ...

Improving early literacy remains a central focus as recent drops in reading scores across the state have educators at 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 ...

In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat ...

This is the second of two articles that describe the development and evaluation of three component-specific instructional systems for improving critical reading skills. The skill components that were ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

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 ...

Three key skills—academic language, perspective taking, and complex reasoning—can predict how well a student does with the kind of deep reading comprehension required in secondary school and beyond, ...