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Reading Comprehension — Reading for Meaning
Great progress has been made during the past 15 years in the area of reading, and particularly, in our understanding of ...
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Current Issues in Reading Comprehension
Over the past decade, there has been an increased focus nationally on the development of literacy for all students. ...
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Research on Teaching Reading Comprehension
Instruction or Assessment?During the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, reading comprehension was largely taught by ...
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Vocabulary Makes Fluent Reading and Comprehension Possible
Sarah recognizes and understands the meaning of almost all the words in text. She reads with better comprehension and ...
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Fluency Contributes to Comprehension
Fluent reading is expressive, accurate, and appropriately paced. Fluent reading is smooth and expressive, sounds like ...
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Fluent Reading Opens the Door to Comprehension
Fluency and comprehension are related and interact (Chard, Pikulski, & McDonagh, 2006). Although the exact extent ...
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Prior Knowledge Plays a Large Role in Reading Comprehension
The most important factor in determining how much readers will comprehend and how well writers will be able to ...
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Reading Instruction Checklist
Your school's reading program should include the five essential components of reading instruction that research has ...
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The Use of Context Cues in Reading
When children encounter an unfamiliar word in reading, they may make use of context cues, that is, information from ...
Source: LD Online
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Reading: Questioning
Questioning is a critical strategy that helps readers make meaning of literature by promoting critical thinking about ...
Source: Literacy Matters
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Information Used in Text Comprehension
If readers are to make sense of texts, they must develop mental models of the texts (Sanford & Garrod, 1998). In ...
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Relations Between Instruction in Text Organization and Diverse Learners
Diverse learners have benefited from explicit, task-specific instruction on how to recognize and use the physical ...
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Instant Message Novels: The Prose of the Future?
Can a book written entirely in instant messages be considered prose? Could this format, instead, be a negative ...
Source: Education.com
Additional Content
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Tips for Reading Success
Reading fluency can be elusive for some young readers. Want to figure out if your child is a fluent reader?
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Preschool Reading: Comprehension and Sequencing
Reading comprehension and sequencing are two pre-reading skills that preschoolers can practice before they can read...
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Study Skills They Don't Teach in School
Teachers seldom train kids to read with a purpose, organize their thoughts and notes, infer what comes next, or connect...
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Types of Wordplay
Word Consciousness Another component of vocabulary instruction is developing students’ word consciousness, their...
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Ideas for Responses to Literature
In addition to reading aloud, there are endless possibilities for links to literature that encourage responses. The...
