Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

Make a chart with the five Ws and an H to help young readers build reading comprehension. Reviewing the five Ws (who, what, where, when and why) and an H (how) after reading a text can improve ...

Research in education rarely draws on the substantial body of scientific evidence on how learning works. That’s a problem for teachers, students—and the rest of us. Researchers and academics focus on ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

Most of us learn to read one—word—at—a—time. If you want to read faster, a better strategy is to read words in clusters, groups of three or four words you can read at a glance. It takes regular ...