Not exact matches
Comprehension can be a more abstract activity, requiring lots of
skill sets at
once.
Once teachers are planning and teaching High Performance Learning - Focused Lessons effectively, in the Increasing the Rigor of Learning - Focused Lessons: Higher Order Thinking, Reading and Writing professional development they will gain the
skills and knowledge to increase the complexity of learning as the lesson progresses, integrate higher order thinking strategies and reading
comprehension strategies into their lessons to increase rigor and deepen student learning, and challenge students to critically analyze and interpret what they learn to develop new insights.
The assumption was that
once students learned the mechanics of reading and writing (grades 1 - 3), they were equipped with the foundation upon which to build
comprehension and critical thinking
skills.
But it also means hours of practicing supposedly abstract reading
comprehension skills like «finding the main idea,» with the theory being that
once you've perfected that
skill on simple texts, you'll be able to apply it to find the main idea of any text, no matter how complex.