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Tag: Teaching Reading 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…
Re-think to Increase Comprehension
Reading is not a natural process. It is caught, not just taught. One way to improve reading comprehension to develop internal cueing strategies. The Re-think 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.
Reading Intervention Whys, Whats, and Hows
All too often, reading intervention assessment is limited to establishing the whys. Teachers also need specific whats to inform their hows of instruction.
Expository Reading Fluency
Struggling remedial readers need both practice in reading fluency and practice in reading increasingly difficult text. Older readers need to both "catch up" and "keep up"…
Decodable Books for Older Readers
Older remedial reading students can learn to read when provided This article shares why Decodable Take Home Books for Older Readers.
Making Sense of Community College and Trade School Instruction
Making Sense of Community College and Trade School Instruction will help professors teach to the instructional needs of individual students by sharing a successful learning delivery…