Reading without a purpose leads to lesser comprehension and long-term memory. Many students who read this way find it difficult to participate in class discussions and do as well on their exams as ...

The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 87, No. 3, Special Issue: The Basal Reader in American Reading Instruction (Jan., 1987), pp. 357-366 (10 pages) As more is learned about the nature of reading and ...

The UD Digital Textbook Font, released in 2016, was designed to be easy to read for children with low vision or dyslexia, and to make the movements and shapes of the characters easy to understand when ...

Reading without a purpose leads to lesser comprehension and long-term memory. Many students who read this way find it difficult to participate in class discussions and do as well on their exams as ...

Will there ever be another Harry Potter? Between 1997 and 2007, it seemed like every child (and even their parents) was reading J.K. Rowling’s timeless fantasy novels about a skinny, bespectacled ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

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