Sentences with phrase «reading comprehension skills rather»

Students may spend hours every week practicing reading comprehension skills rather than acquiring knowledge, an approach that is particularly harmful for low - income students.

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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.

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.

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).