A review paper of research from the past 50 years shows that many teachers still aren't deploying evidence-based methods.

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once ...

Strategies for the After-Reading Stage The most obvious and widely used strategy for the after-reading stage is to answer questions in writing--either comprehension questions at the end of a chapter ...

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 ...

They are meant to help you analyze passages and answer questions, not to be a distraction. Many reading comprehension questions depend on understanding a passage’s structure: how sentences and ...

Don’t treat the reading comprehension section like a quiz based on an article or book chapter. No points are awarded for recalling the gist of the material. Rather, many questions ask about ...

Reading comprehension helps children understand their relationships with other people and with the world as they grow. It also helps build their vocabulary and answer questions about the larger ...