Students may spend hours every week practicing reading
comprehension skills rather than acquiring knowledge, an approach that is particularly harmful for low - income students.
Not exact matches
Hirsch, Willingham, and others believe that's because we continue to teach reading
comprehension as a
skill to be mastered
rather than seeing it as explicitly linked to content knowledge.
Students familiar with using their own devices at home have the potential to relate much better to these
rather than to the school's technologies, and that familiarity can extend their
skills for
comprehension and the creative use of apps to literacy, numeracy and other school subjects.
While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading
comprehension is by giving them
skills — strategies like «finding the main idea —
rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.»
It's a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading
comprehension is by giving them
skills — strategies like «finding the main idea» —
rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.
These all promote the view that
comprehension depends on having formal
skills rather than broad knowledge.
(Of course, as with computer - based instruction, to be truly effective tutoring needs to be connected to the content students are learning
rather than just focused on free - floating
comprehension skills.)
The writing may be a journal entry about the text, or may be a fill - in - the blank worksheet that focuses on the text's meaning (
rather than on a
comprehension skill or vocabulary words).
However, observations also indicated an increase in
comprehension skill instruction
rather than
comprehension strategy instruction, although the latter has been found to be the most effective approach for increasing reading achievement (NRP, 2000).