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Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

Reading and writing are so intertwined that instruction in one is bound to benefit the other. Here, Dana Robertson, an associate professor of reading and literacy education at Virginia Tech, offers ...

Multilingual students read and comprehend more when teaching materials are culturally relevant to them, as veteran North Carolina educator Terri Ashchi ...

Reading fluency is the ability to read with proper speed, accuracy, and expression. Children, and people in general, must be able to read fluently in order to understand what they’re reading. This ...