Alex Quigley is an English teacher and Director of Huntington Research School, York, England. He blogs at www.theconfidentteacher.com and he is the author of ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’, published by ...
Schools spend hours every week teaching comprehension skills and strategies in "reading" class, without results. Using those techniques in history, science, and other content-focused classes could ...
Misconceptions about how to help kids understand what they read are widespread, and some experts are unintentionally adding to the confusion about comprehension "skills" and strategies. Some ...
Don't miss out on the headlines from Opinion. Followed categories will be added to My News. There have been many national and international reviews of research that provide independent, evidence-based ...
The Reading Teacher, Vol. 64, No. 3, Reading in Grades 4-6: Focus on Expository Reading (NOVEMBER 2010), pp. 166-178 (13 pages) ...
The new question-of-the-week is: What are the roles of reading strategies in literacy instruction? There is little disagreement that reading strategies have a role in literacy instruction. There is, ...