To be fair, the question that we started with poses a false dichotomy. Both of us, and probably you, read all kinds of texts over the course of any month. It is hard to imagine navigating the modern ...

If reading is a recent innovation, then reading on screens is brand new, and it has brought further challenges for our brains. A number of research studies strongly suggest that when we read text on a ...

Rachel Karchmer-Klein, associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Delaware, co-designed a research study where a group of high-achieving eighth graders ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

This strategy helps upper elementary students decipher nonfiction by identifying key structures and vocabulary in the text.

Developing a novel approach to integrating foundational skills, comprehension and writing instruction within the context of authentic informational text reading to improve fourth- and fifth-grade ...