Digital platforms can help make reading aloud independently more engaging and get kids excited about literacy practice.

As you decide whether to take the ACT or SAT – or both – consider what the passages on their respective reading tests are like. Here are six traits of ACT and SAT Reading passages that you should be ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

Some components of reading comprehension don't lend themselves well to scientific study, with the result that one component--"skills and strategies"--has come to overshadow the others. The middle of a ...

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Do students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print? For both parents and teachers, knowing whether computer-based media are improving or compromising education is a question of ...