Four decades after education reformer Marian Joseph pushed phonics in schools to change the way young readers learn, California embraces it.

Reading scores are improving in Alabama, but thousands of third graders could still be held back this year if they can’t catch up over the summer.

Proof Points What happens to reading comprehension when students focus on the main idea Large-scale replication in high-poverty schools yields mixed results by Jill Barshay May 26, 2025 young boy ...

And while reading teachers spend less than a quarter of the class time devoted to reading working on comprehension, that’s still magnitudes more than the less than 1 percent of time research ...

A 2025 paper shows that hardly any evidence-based practices for teaching reading comprehension have filtered into the classroom.

While necessary, the two essential components of reading comprehension—decoding and language comprehension—are not sufficient to improve outcomes in international reading assessments such as Programme ...

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As such, their reading becomes smooth and expressive. Why Is Reading Fluency Important? Reading fluency is important because it develops comprehension and motivates readers.

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 ...