For example, research shows that interventions targeting multiple skills at once —such as fluency and comprehension—can have higher positive effects for older students than single-skill practice.

A reading block in an elementary school classroom can feel like a carefully choreographed 120-minute dance. Time is a finite resource, and it often falls to teachers to make decisions about how ...

Then his fifth-grade teacher found a new program that lets students practice their verbal reading skills. Soon Andres was reading out loud to a computer that was invisibly evaluating his literacy, ...

To improve student reading skills, Columbus City Schools is using federal funds to give students free books to read at home.

That can help give students the practice they need to improve both their reading comprehension and writing skills, said the organization's founder and CEO, Peter Gault.

“If you let a child keep going up in grades without the ability to read, they’re not going to do well in school,” State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan said.

She tutors children facing some of the same challenges as those at Capital Prep — missing core phonics skills, and difficulty transitioning from simple reading exercises to comprehending books.