This short article is a response to the reading wars currently engaging attention in the popular press and among school districts, parents, and teachers. It attempts to portray the variety and the nuances of teaching reading pedagogy in contrast to a one-size-fits-all approach focused either on phonics or on whole language. It further encourages…

Purpose: Set for variability (SfV; the ability to disambiguate the mismatch between the decoded form of a word and its correct pronunciation) has been shown to predict regular and irregular word reading in children across both transparent and opaque orthographies. It has been theorized that SfV is a crucial part of the decoding process associated…

The use of active comprehension strategies that encourage students to explain what they have read can improve students' comprehension of complex scientific texts. Most research has focused on either strategies that are engaged during reading (online) or those used after reading (offline)--often ignoring potential interactions that might occur in…

This article reports on a longitudinal, cross-institutional study exploring the extent to which undergraduate students transfer reading practices they learned in their first-year writing courses to future courses and contexts. Although small in scale, this study is a step toward helping writing program administrators, WAC/WID directors, writing…

Prior research has examined statistics learning within classroom settings, but few studies have investigated how students learn statistical knowledge from text. In the present study, we examined how graduate students (n = 8) with experience in statistics read a statistics text. We used a think-aloud methodology to assess participants' strategy…

Metacognitive reading strategies can contribute to high school students' academic achievements. This study investigates how basic psychological needs influence students' metacognitive reading strategies and classroom engagement. A total of 386 high school students in South Korea participated in this study. To examine the mediating role of…

The role of grammar in reading comprehension remains unresolved despite the relatively large number of studies in this line of research. Drawing on the (dis)advantages of applying grammatical knowledge to the reading process, the present study discusses some of the reasons for differing results reported by previous studies. It is argued that…

Although numerous studies provide extensive evidence of the benefits of shared reading in the home, little is known about how this practice is sustained into middle childhood. The aim of this systematic review is to outline what is currently known about shared reading with children aged 7-11 years old. Thirty-three studies identified for inclusion…

The study explores the dynamics and interactions between a father and a child of a multilingual family during their daily shared book reading (SBR) practice. Through Bourdieu's lens of cultural capital theory, the study specifically explores "how meaning was constructed, over time, through the child and parent's verbal and nonverbal…

The recommendation to introduce shared book reading during the child's first year of life is widely acknowledged. While prior research has focused on the benefits for children, recent studies instead examine the impact on the reader. Studies have found a positive effect on parenting skills and parental well-being. Further, parents express that the…

A teacher educator shares how a school community engaged family in parent-child interactive reading experiences around big ideas found in diverse literature to deepen inclusion beyond the classroom.

In order to better understand whether and how college students use certain textbook reading strategies, this project employed several important methods in concert, including a textbook reading strategy inventory that focused on frequency of strategy use, eye-movement recordings of participants reading college textbook excerpts, and think-aloud…

Reading academic journal articles often poses problems for EFL university students due to shopisticate language, unfamiliar vocabulary, and dense information. Therefore, the current study aims to explore the reading strategies utilized by English Education students when interacting with academic journal articles and to ascertain how these tactics…

This qualitative, comparative case study draws on the concepts of "coalitional literacy," "organizing as critical pedagogy," "oppression as intermeshed," and "solidarity as pedagogical" to address this question: "How is solidarity built through literacy practice in two different educational spaces (one community-organizing based and one…

This systematic review, conducted under the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols (PRISMA-P), provides the first comprehensive synthesis of empirical research on nonfiction picturebook reading in early childhood and primary education between 2000 and 2024. Drawing on 34 peer-reviewed studies, it traces the…