A new California law is pushing for phonics-based reading instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

I became a disciple of E.D. Hirsch, Jr. early in my teaching career for one simple reason. His theories about reading comprehension—and his alone—described precisely what I witnessed every day in my ...

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

Basal-type programs, which structure their main reading comprehension lessons around a core anthology of short full-length ...

The VARC section of CAT exam demands comprehension, critical thinking, and language command, with Reading Comprehension ...