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 ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Why do so many ...

Although a text may appear to be about events that take place, the themes are the ideas that run throughout. For example, Romeo and Juliet is about two young lovers from opposing families who meet by ...

The HESI A2 examination stands for Heath Education Systems Incorporated Admissions Assessment and acts as a way to test a student’s potential success in an intense nursing program. Orvis School of ...

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 ...

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 ...