The skills needed to understand what you have read can take a lifetime but it's worth the ongoing effort. By Evelyn O'Connor When you're asked to read a passage and respond to it, certain skills are ...

Cognition and Instruction, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2000), pp. 525-556 (32 pages) The importance of causal structure has been well documented in text comprehension research. This study investigates how both ...

Comprehending text is a skill. Like any other skill, it needs to be learned. It remains a rare capability, despite the rise in the school-going population globally. Most schools, it seems, are no ...

Nick Mack, a fourth-grade teacher in Burlington, Vermont, says his students are at a transformative stage of their early education. “Around fourth grade, students transition from just reading for ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...

The Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 100, No. 3 (Jan. - Feb., 2007), pp. 132-141 (10 pages) The author examined the techniques of 3 middle school struggling readers to use silence to protect or ...

This week’s question is: Which is better for students -- reading paper or reading digitally? We were all supposed to live in a Star Trek world with all reading done electronically and paper books, ...

When you read a text and show you understand it by answering questions, this is called comprehension. You use comprehension skills all the time in everyday life. For example, when you work out what a ...