Schools spend hours every week teaching comprehension skills and strategies in "reading" class, without results. Using those techniques in history, science, and other content-focused classes could ...
To help educators support K-12 students who are struggling with reading comprehension, the University of Oregon's HEDCO Institute has created a tip sheet showing the most successful strategies schools ...
One of the primary missions of any educational institution is to produce graduates who are literate. The ability to derive meaning from print is central to the definition of literacy. Many people ...
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 ...
Alex Quigley is an English teacher and Director of Huntington Research School, York, England. He blogs at www.theconfidentteacher.com and he is the author of ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’, published by ...
Reading comprehension instruction doesn't line up with what the evidence shows can work—and it goes on way too long. A recent meta-analysis confirms that it’s best to teach reading comprehension ...