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Tag: reading comprehension

Literacy Centers May 23, 2009

Interactive Reading-Making a Movie in Your Head

Why does everyone understand movies better than reading? By using the interactive strategies that we naturally apply at the movies, we can increase our reading comprehension.

Literacy Centers May 23, 2009

How to Break Bad Reading Habits

Getting rid of bad reading habits that interfere with reading comprehension and reading speed are essential. Improve your concentration, reading posture, attention span, and reading attitude…

Literacy Centers Jan 17, 2009

Five Tips To Increase Silent Reading Speed and Improve Reading Comprehension

Increasing reading speed will improve your productivity and allow you to read more. More importantly, increasing reading speed will significantly improve reading comprehension and retention. Want…

Reading Jan 17, 2009

Successful Reading Intervention

According to research, only one of six remedial reading students will ever progress to grade-level reading ability. However, the odds can increase dramatically when the critical…

Reading Jan 17, 2009

Top Ten Reasons to Teach Phonics

Reading is not a developmentally acquired skill. In other words, children and adults do not learn to read by simply being read to or exposed to…

Reading Jan 17, 2009

Should We Teach Phonics in Reading Intervention?

Reading is not a developmentally acquired skill. Although most students learn to read in their early years of school, some students experience significant reading problems. Almost…

Reading Jan 17, 2009

How to Teach Sight Words

Although not a substitute for systematic phonics instruction, learning key sight words does makes sense to promote reading automaticity. In fact, many of the high frequency…

Reading Jan 17, 2009

The Top Ten Syllable Rules

The Top Ten Syllable Rules will help students improve reading, pronunciation, and spelling accuracy. Applying these syllabication rules will also help readers identify prefixes, roots, and…