Some parents are having trouble making sense of their kids' reading assignments while schools are closed. The explanation is a deeply entrenched by misguided approach to teaching comprehension.

In second grade, Jose Alvarez struggled to read. He had fallen behind early in school. His older brothers and mother are dyslexic, and the family feared that Jose might have a learning disability too.

At Purdue University, librarians, instructional designers, and faculty members are working together to incorporate the concept of information literacy across the curriculum. In the past few years they ...

This multi-stage assignment invites students to reflect on their personal literacy development through storytelling, peer collaboration, and revision. Students describe key literacy events, analyze ...

A new survey shows that most teachers are still gearing class reading assignments to students’ skill level, rather than--as the common-core standards envision--to their grade level. The report is ...

Another professor has joined the chorus of scholars warning that students’ reading skills and attention spans are abysmal.