There’s been a lot of concern about phonics instruction in recent months, sparked by an illuminating new audio documentary. But there’s another aspect of reading—comprehension—that is ...

Comprehension strategy instruction has a solid research base. Teacher guides on evidence-based practices from the What Works Clearinghouse recommend teaching students across grade levels how to ...

Teaching comprehension “skills and strategies” divorced from content—the standard approach—doesn’t work. But teaching students to use those techniques in the context of history and other ...

Comprehension strategies are still important in this equation, Relyea added. Teaching these strategies explicitly can help students become better readers, a large body of research shows.

Other strategies include teaching words in categories, using contrasts and comparisons, and immersing students in a particular topic.

In this study, we investigated the efficacy of 2 related interventions on the reading comprehension of seventh and eighth graders with learning disabilities who used English as a second language. All ...