Sentences with phrase «reading comprehension strategies like»

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.

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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.

For example, teachers use reading strategies like chunking words or looking at pictures to help learners access bigger concepts like word recognition or inference and comprehension.

Elementary schools — in the United States and, it appears, in Britain — then compound the problem by focusing on reading comprehension strategies, like «making inferences» and «finding the main idea,» rather than on building knowledge in subjects like history or science.

The vast majority of American elementary schools — and especially those serving the neediest students — spend hours every week teaching reading comprehension skills and strategies instead of trying to impart any substantive information about subjects like history and science.

Although researchers like Keene and Zimmerman have identified central strategies for strengthening reading comprehension, early elementary teachers wonder how they can use such strategies with prereaders who have little knowledge of books or even the English language.