American educators have returned to the notion that shared background knowledge is essential to reading instruction, ending a ...

According to the badge icon on my phone, I have 667 unread articles in my Instapaper account. I also have 12 un-downloaded novels waiting for me on Amazon's servers, 142 unopened emails, and suffer ...

A study from the University of Valencia found that print reading could boost skills by six to eight times more than digital reading Reading print texts improves comprehension more than reading digital ...

One of the primary missions of any educational institution is to produce graduates who are literate. The ability to derive meaning from print is central to the definition of literacy. Many people ...

In the last few weeks, I’ve seen online posts from teachers bemoaning their students’ lack of enthusiasm for reading. Our international standardized test scores are down again. And then there’s the ...

When you read a text and show you understand it by answering questions, this is called comprehension. You use comprehension skills all the time in everyday life. For example, when you work out what a ...