MACON, Ga. — Students across Bibb County are building reading skills with the help of a program called Accelerated Reading, often referred to as AR. The program encourages students to read books at ...

Stephanie Emminger’s English class at Jennings County High School is the first in the county to read 2.2 million words in one month under the school’s new Accelerated Reading program. For the last 25 ...

MACON, Ga. — Students at Heard Elementary School in Bibb County are proving that reading can be fun — and rewarding. Those who met their accelerated reader goals this semester got to celebrate with at ...

Pittston Area Intermediate students participated in the annual PTO Accelerated Reading Holiday Prize Drawing on Friday, December 23 where students had the opportunity to win prizes for books read in ...

Mrs. Theresa Sabetta, librarian and Accelerated Reader Director along with Mrs. Josephine Toomey, Reading Teacher/Middle School are pleased to announce the Top Point Earners for the Accelerated ...

More than 250 students and parents from Shull Elementary School in San Dimas attended the school’s inaugural Family Reading Night, held Nov. 14. “Blast Off Into Reading” was the theme of the event ...

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 ...

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 ...