Every week, Talking Points gives you a worksheet to practise your reading comprehension with exercises about the story we’ve written. “Ding ding” is not just a signal for Hong Kong’s ...

She was arrested after she glued an excerpt of a poem by Taras Shevchenko, a poet and thinker who is widely revered in Ukraine, to a statue of Shevchenko standing in St. Petersburg. The poem read ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

Beyond typical comprehension skills, students needed to apply understanding of real-world showbiz references to tackle some of the questions. Thoughts from a teacher and tutor Leung*, an English ...

But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children develop reading comprehension. A new study on early language ...

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this poem seem to be doing. The author and her friend, a scholar, are debating the crushworthiness of a certain ...

Gastric peroral endoscopic myotomy (G-POEM) is a minimally invasive procedure to relieve symptoms of gastroparesis. In patients with this condition, the valve between the stomach and small intestine ...