Teaching Reading

As students get to more advanced material, the focus of studying moves to reading, comprehending and recalling material that has been read from textbooks, articles or other material. One way to build comprehension power is to teach students to summarize.
Summarizing involves pulling the important points from reading material, organizing them, and paraphrasing them in [...]

Reading comprehension is one of the most talked-about topics in this arena, so I’m always on the lookout for outstanding articles about comprehension. You’ll want to check out Seven Strategies To Teach Students Text Comprehension over at Reading Rockets. This article does an outstanding job of outlining ways in which reading comprehension can break [...]