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Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Apr 01, 2021, 05:47pm EDT Apr 03, 2021, 11:45am EDT This article is ...

Experts have long known that reading skills develop before the first day of kindergarten, but new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from the Harvard Graduate ...

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We have developed an evidence based intervention called Fingerspelling Our Way to Reading, that is specifically designed for deaf and hard of hearing students from kindergarten through second grade.

In the last few weeks, I’ve seen online posts from teachers bemoaning their students’ lack of enthusiasm for reading. Our international standardized test scores are down again. And then there’s the ...