Reading comprehension is crucial for success in school and society but can be difficult for children initially. Decodable texts are widely believed to help by focusing on taught letter-sound ...

On April 9, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel on the decoding threshold, a key but little-known indicator for elementary and middle school students’ reading ability. The panel featured a ...

Q: I want to share my suggestions for the parents of children who have difficulty reading or don’t enjoy reading, because I also had difficulty reading as a child and young adult. I didn’t remember ...

Three key skills—academic language, perspective taking, and complex reasoning—can predict how well a student does with the kind of deep reading comprehension required in secondary school and beyond, ...

Every year, early elementary teachers welcome students with a wide range of reading abilities into their classrooms. Some kindergarteners may be reading whole books, for example, while others don’t ...

The most recent round of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results delivered a familiar gut punch: Just 30 percent of eighth graders in the United States read at or above the ...