Sentences with phrase «encourage vocabulary and comprehension»

Jim and Elena at their blog Children Learning Reading stresses the importance of teaching your toddler to start reading at a young age to encourage vocabulary and comprehension skills.

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This pack includes 12 pages of reading themed bookmarks and 7 different bookmark backs that encourage reading comprehension, summarizing, critical thinking, and vocabulary.

The bottom line: reading comprehension is a slow - growing plant, and the demand for rapid results on annual tests may be encouraging poor classroom practice — giving kids a sugar rush of test preparation, skills, and strategies when a well - rounded diet of knowledge and vocabulary is what's really needed to grow good readers.

Curriculum guides supported traditional ideas about teaching reading by encouraging teachers to teach isolated bits of vocabulary, decoding skills, and comprehension skills.

She also encouraged states to use this opportunity under Title IV, Part A, to provide a «well - rounded education» for young students, noting that early elementary grades tend to focus on literacy skills such as letter and word identification, while dual language learners — as well as all young children — would benefit from increased attention to building comprehension, vocabulary, and background knowledge.

Use Splash interactive read - alouds to extend and enrich vocabulary, boost comprehension, and encourage oral language and fluency.

Encourage kindergarten students to build their reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and word study skills using daily practice activities.

Use interactive read - alouds to extend and enrich vocabulary, boost comprehension, and encourage oral language and fluency.

Assisted in classrooms at the local YMCA reading «corestorybooks» that promoted vocabulary and comprehension by reading high - quality children's literature together; designed fun learning activities that let children experiment and practice with words and ideas to deepen their understanding of books; and encourage social interaction through group activities designed to develop and promote language and literacy skills.