Reading & Literacy
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Improving Reading Comprehension Using a Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
The Directed Reading Thinking Activity is a comprehension tactic that guides learners in asking questions about content, making predictions, and then reading to verify ... -
Using Structured Comprehension to Improve Children’s Reading Fluency
A reading comprehension strategy that moves from concentrating on sentences to paragraphs. This framework provides learners with proper contextual info, corrects any incorrect cues ... -
Should Reading Be In Small Groups Or To The Whole Class?
One of the most difficult challenges that a teacher can face is trying to teach students to read. Since there are so many letters ... -
Using Visual Synthesizing to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension Skills
So what does it mean to synthesize when we’re discussing reading? It’s best to think of synthesizing as an ongoing, multi-step process. We want ... -
Using Shared Reading to Improve Reading Fluency
Shared Reading is a reading activity that happens when learners join in or share the reading of a book or other content while guided ... -
The Process of Learning To Read
One of the most difficult challenges that a teacher can face is teaching a young student how to read. Not only are there so ... -
Using Informal Reading Level Inventories to Improve Kids’ Reading Ability
Reading experts utilize Informal Reading Inventories (IRI) to help learners develop their reading skills and learn from texts at each grade level and in ... -
Rhyming Ability: Is It Important In Reading?
While more than 5 million students in the U.S. learn English as their first language, rhyming remains one of the last skills that these ... -
Introduction To Phonemic Awareness
Understanding the sounds in a word is an essential step for children before learning to read those words. This process of becoming aware of ... -
Dialect And Reading Difficulties
Learning to read can be seen as an extremely daunting and challenging task. However, this process is made even more difficult by various dialect ...
