“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 ...

Students need to reach a “knowledge threshold” to boost reading comprehension in a new subject, and some academic keywords are more critical than others, finds a new study in the journal Psychological ...

“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness, ...

LAWRENCE — New research from the University of Kansas has found an intervention based on the science of reading and math effectively helped English learners boost their comprehension, visualize and ...

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 ...

The film follows Jack, a student who realizes his vocabulary and reading skills are lacking after struggling with a spelling word. Inspired by a classmate, Sue, he begins to write down unfamiliar ...