Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...
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 ...
US schools are increasingly replacing full-length novels with short excerpts in literature classes, a shift driven by falling reading proficiency, shorter attention spans and the pull of digital media ...