“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

The content of a children's book -- not its form as a print book or a digital book -- predicts how well children understand a story, finds a new study. The content of a children's book -- not its form ...

In 2016, Education Week published an opinion piece saying kids reading comprehension skills are struggling not because of teachers but because kids lack a well-rounded base of knowledge to begin with.

Hyperlexia first appeared in the literature in a 1967 paper describing young children with reading skills exceeding their language comprehension skills (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967). The initial ...

As an elementary school teacher for 27 years, Joshua Wittenberger has seen plenty of educational programs promising to improve student literacy through game-based learning. "A lot of programs that ...

Test a group of eighth graders who speak English at home. Is their Reading Comprehension better than non-English speakers? Not necessarily. They may be able to read English with ease. But ...