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

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

When asked what I’m studying, I normally shrug and noncommittally say “English.” I want to make it clear that I’m aware it’s ...

Delgado is the director of Texas initiatives for the English Learners Success Forum. With over 30 years of experience in ...

Will there ever be another Harry Potter? Between 1997 and 2007, it seemed like every child (and even their parents) was reading J.K. Rowling’s timeless fantasy novels about a skinny, bespectacled ...

Hyperlexia first appeared in the literature in a 1967 paper describing young children with reading skills exceeding their language comprehension skills (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967). The initial ...

By Hyacinth D. Ermac, a 3rd-year political science major at the University of Cebu-Main Campus There’s a new trend in town: react, share, and comment first befo ...