“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 ...

Reading remains one of the most critical foundations of education, shaping how individuals comprehend information, think ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Comprehension Passages Based Questions for Class 12: Reading unseen comprehension passages and answering the related questions forms a crucial component of the CBSE Class 12 English exam. In Section A ...