AI has a role to play in the teaching of reading comprehension. But that role should be as an assistant to the teacher — not to the reader.

Using AI to revise or produce texts of certain levels of difficulty or using it to summarize and explain texts are not scaffolds likely to make kids into better readers. Here’s why.

After years in the classroom, I now know that I can’t be a truly great teacher on my own, that I have to work within a functional system.

Travel to Bradford in West Yorkshire with Launa Hall as she visits a diverse primary school where students speak more than 40 languages. As she explores how educators teach children to read English in the U.K., she finds a familiar foundation to support growing readers: decoding.