For decades, most elementary schools have taught reading as a skill: children have
practiced reading comprehension strategies like «finding the main idea» or «making inferences» on simple stories.
Not exact matches
Reciprocal teaching is a specific dialogue technique that may enhance
reading comprehension through «guided
practice in applying simple, concrete
strategies to the task of text
comprehension» (Rosenshine & Meister, 1994).
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.
For
comprehension instruction, eight different instructional
practices were observed and coded: doing a picture walk; asking for a prediction; asking a text - based question; asking a higher level, aesthetic response question; asking children to write in response to
reading (including writing answers to questions about what they had
read); doing a story map; asking children to retell a story; and working on a
comprehension skill or
strategy.
We would recommend that educators spend time teaching
reading comprehension strategies and also make sure that students have enough time to
practice and master those
strategies.
The
reading support team had volunteered to teach the classes because they believed that struggling learners could achieve and wanted to improve their own
practice by learning about
comprehension strategy instruction.
Bingham also pointed out the interdisciplinary benefits of Eureka Math, which gives students additional opportunities to
practice writing skills and improve
reading comprehension through word problems and
strategies such as the
Read, Draw, Write
strategy for problem - solving.
Collaborative Strategic
Reading (CSR) is a reading comprehension practice that consists of four comprehension strategies that students apply before, during, and after reading in small, cooperative
Reading (CSR) is a
reading comprehension practice that consists of four comprehension strategies that students apply before, during, and after reading in small, cooperative
reading comprehension practice that consists of four
comprehension strategies that students apply before, during, and after
reading in small, cooperative
reading in small, cooperative groups.
Participants will learn how fluency is related to
comprehension and how these three research - based
practices can be incorporated into a single
strategy to accelerate
reading improvement.
Strategies for
Reading Information and Vocabulary Effectively (STRIVE) is a set of Tier I instructional practices designed to meet the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills requirements for vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing while using social studies expositor
Reading Information and Vocabulary Effectively (STRIVE) is a set of Tier I instructional
practices designed to meet the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills requirements for vocabulary,
reading comprehension, and writing while using social studies expositor
reading comprehension, and writing while using social studies expository text.
Students
practice using
reading comprehension strategies with interactive texts.
Our goal in designing the Book Club Plus framework was to manage this dilemma (Lampert, 1985) so that all youngsters would learn to
read with teacher support at their instructional level, and could
practice comprehension skills and
strategies in conversation and writing in response to age - appropriate literature.