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Predict to Increase Comprehension
Students can improve reading comprehension by self-monitoring their understanding with specific cueing strategies. Prediction is one of the five SCRIP comprehension strategies.
Interpret to Increase Comprehension
Students need to learn to dialog with narrative and expository text. Self-generated student questions can significantly improve reading comprehension. Teach students how to use this cueing…
Connect to Increase Comprehension
Making connections to self, the text, and resources or events outside of the text can improve reading comprehension.
Summarize to Increase Comprehension
Teaching readers to summarize sections as they read will significantly increase reading comprehension and retention.
The Parts of an Essay
We confuse students about the parts of an essay by the labels we use. The problem is compounded by the fact that students are exposed to…
How to Write a Good Thesis Statement
The Common Core argumentative and informational/explanatory essays each require a different form of thesis statement. Learn what makes a good and bad thesis statement.
Correlative Conjunctions
Today we are studying Correlative Conjunctions.
Coordinating Conjunctions
Today we are studying Coordinating Conjunctions.