When you're trying to teach your students to
master reading comprehension skills, they need to successfully maneuver through difficult texts and make inferences.
Not exact matches
Hirsch's work and output span decades, but a principal thrust of his ideas can be summarized thusly:
reading comprehension is not a «
skill» we can teach directly, practice, or
master.
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.
Washington — Children who
master basic
reading skills, but then fall behind in the middle grades, may do so because they receive little instruction in essential techniques of
comprehension.
Unlike decoding,
reading comprehension is not a
skill that can be directly taught, practiced, and
mastered.
There are
reading skills you can
master to improve your ability to
read faster, smarter, and with greater
comprehension and retention.
We may perceive
reading comprehension as a content - neutral «
skill» that can be taught, practiced,
mastered, and tested in the abstract on any random topic, but this is deeply misleading.
Comprehension Dojo packs have been created to give pupils opportunities to learn and
master essential
reading retrieval
skills that they will encounter in KS1 and KS2 SATs.
Much like a standard Dojo, The
Comprehension Dojo is a place where
reading skills can be acquired, practised, and in time...
mastered!
Helps students
master how to apply
reading comprehension skills to social studies content.
NEA's
Read Across America helps students to
master basic
reading and
comprehension skills and develop a life - long love of
reading by making it F - U-N.
As a parent, Dr. Burton could see that her child needed help
mastering beginning
reading comprehension skills and there was no online
reading program with fun subjects and themes, like fairies, that would excite her child.
When students receive instruction that clarifies
reading knowledge (e.g. letter sounds) and provides explicit instruction in
reading skills (e.g.
comprehension strategies) they are able to
master the foundations of
reading.
Therefore, understanding syllables and learning to segment words not only helps students
master phonics, but also helps students develop
skills in
reading, spelling, pronunciation and
comprehension.
By including exercises, activities, and games that build phonics, vocabulary, spelling, grammar, pronunciation, fluency, and
comprehension skills, this time - tested, research - driven approach helps students
master decoding
skills and grow in every area needed for
reading success.