There are effective techniques for teaching vocabulary, but it's impossible to explicitly teach all the words kids need to become proficient readers. Vocabulary is key to reading comprehension, and ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. A new analysis of federal data that provide a deeper and more systematic look into students’ ability to understand the meaning of words in context than was ...

Two-thirds of students in the U.S. are struggling with reading and the gap is widening, according to recent NAEP testing. Although insufficient decoding skills are typically thought to be the reason ...