The lesson for the day had the students reading One Giant Leap, which narrates the Apollo 11 moon landing. Yet two ...

Many struggling readers are held back by challenges with their working memory. When students cannot retain information long enough to make sense of what they’re reading, comprehension suffers, ...

Reading works on the mind in ways that few other activities can. Each page requires focus on words and their meaning, which strengthens the brain like steady training builds muscle. Stories or ...

Four school districts in major urban areas using the science of reading found while students are grasping basic literacy ...

One of the primary missions of any educational institution is to produce graduates who are literate. The ability to derive meaning from print is central to the definition of literacy. Many people ...

Study after study has shown that reading on screens just doesn’t have the same benefit as reading print books. But where does that leave teachers, who often are required to use both formats in their ...

Analyses of self-paced reading times reveal that linguistic prediction deteriorates under limited executive resources, with this resource sensitivity becoming markedly more pronounced with advancing ...

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This research was partially funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF). While this problem has received considerable attention, no clear explanation has emerged. In my recent PhD thesis, I ...