While necessary, the two essential components of reading comprehension—decoding and language comprehension—are not sufficient to improve outcomes in international reading assessments such as Programme ...

MANILA, Philippines - It can be safely said that reading is the true backbone of most learning. After all, everything starts with the written word — whether it’s math, science or even home economics.

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines ranked lowest in reading comprehension and second lowest in science and mathematics out of 79 countries that participated in an international assessment of the ...

Microsoft recently expanded capabilities in its Reading Progress tool to include Filipino. This is now available to the 27 million students and 950,000 teachers within the Department of Education’s ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

; TODAY, smartphones have become extensions of our hands and the internet serves as the primary source of information. It’s ...

Manila, Philippines, December 1, 2021 – The Department of Education (DepEd) and Microsoft recently concluded a month-long series of virtual events for students across the Philippines throughout ...

There are a lot of things that have improved over the past 50 years, but are still far from perfect: Car safety. Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension instruction ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...