Timothy Shanahan, who sat on the 2000 National Reading Panel and later helped develop the concept of disciplinary literacy, took questions from EdWeek on how it fits into K-12 schools’ larger aims on ...

The ability to derive meaning from print is central to the definition of literacy. Many people assume that, by the time students enter college, they have reading skills adequate to the task of ...

Teaching a child to decode words is a critical early step in reading instruction. But just because children can read words doesn’t mean they understand them. “Reading comprehension ...