Systematic main idea instruction was delivered to minority high school students in four 75-minute lessons patterned upon suggestions from the instructional literature. A counterpart control group ...

Many students experience anxiety over main idea questions on ACT and SAT Reading sections. These question types can be daunting because they require you to synthesize large chunks of text rather than ...

Interviewer: Hi Becky, can you tell me what you’re looking at? Speaker: I’m just reading the weekly plan and I’m trying to find the key theme which this week is 'Old MacDonald'. And I’m trying to work ...

Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...