What is reading comprehension or understanding? Below is one contemporary definition: “Reading comprehension is the reconstructing, interpreting, revaluating, reacting emotionally, and creating ...

It would seem that to achieve higher reading scores in later grades, the missing ingredient is not primarily technical skill—not even skill in performing comprehension strategies—but knowledge.

The American education system rests in large part on the assumption that reading comprehension can be tested separately from knowledge. But a recent symposium sponsored by the overseers of the ...

Measuring reading comprehension is understandably complicated. Asking fact-based questions using a multiple-choice format can measure only what information a reader can recall, but this format can be ...

But LETRS, like the science of reading, isn’t just about word reading. The second year of LETRS is all about language comprehension, and its method differs from typical approaches.

Research into reading comprehension usually deals with very early elementary years, but a $4 million U.S. Education Department grant will fund a study of struggling eighth-graders. The five-year ...

It's the first Nation's Report Card since the Trump administration began making cuts to the U.S. Education Department. The ...