Help children develop their inference and evidence skills with this engaging collection of visual inference questions. This PowerPoint uses a range of carefully selected images to encourage children ...

A FREE Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language Exercise 3 resource designed for Year 10–11 students preparing for the Reading and Writing paper. This resource introduces and practises the key ...

More than half of 3rd- to 5th-grade students in the Empire State failed their reading proficiency state exams this year, according to shocking new data. Preliminary results released this week by the ...

Reading scores of New York City public school students plummeted this past school year, erasing improvements in the subject recorded a year before, sparking calls from the teachers’ union for a change ...

The Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education approved the list in June. The required reading list establishes the minimum literary works students must study from kindergarten through high ...

The widespread concern about the effect of cellphones on reading comprehension in elementary school children has led to surprisingly little experimental research. New research by UCLA psychologists ...

Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. Ptolemy, who had served under ...

Correction: This article has been updated to show that 91.9% of Shelby County’s third grade students scored high enough to reach the cut score. Alabama’s third grade reading scores held steady this ...

Every day we read about people asking, “At what grade level does my child read?” “Is it true that 54% of adults in the U.S. read below a sixth-grade level?” “Have reading scores dropped an entire ...

When asked what I’m studying, I normally shrug and noncommittally say “English.” I want to make it clear that I’m aware it’s a somewhat romantic pursuit, set apart from the new standard of ...

More than 40 percent of Americans think that listening to audiobooks is less rigorous and really doesn’t count as reading. Cognitive neuroscientist Nadine Gaab disagrees, and she and other education ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...