The mission of our English Language Arts Department is for staff, families, and community members to work in partnership to ensure that all students have adequate and equitable access to high-quality ...

When she received an email from a former student one evening, BYU English professor Dawan Coombs experienced déjà vu. The former student, a graduate of the BYU English teaching program, was desperate ...

The Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 109, No. 4 (2016), pp. 391-404 (14 pages) Teachers' skill in inferring students' reading motivation influences their ability to provide responsive literacy ...

The Education Week Spotlight on Adolescent Reading is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on strategies for supporting students with better reading habits, research ...

Stagnant reading scores among middle school students in Maryland and Virginia have caught the attention of educators, who are starting to target literacy programs at adolescents after years of ...

In this undated photo, Mattison Hingano, left, and Dawan Coombs, right, collaborate together to implement research strategies in Hingano's seventh grade reading class to help struggling adolescent ...

Drawing on the work of psychologist and motivation researcher Julia Moeller, the adolescent reading researchers Drs. Gay Ivey and Peter Johnston report that teens are stressed. Teens are so stressed ...

Teachers and researchers identify three barriers to finding reading materials that meet these students' needs—and how to ...