Practical Ways to See if Your Students Comprehend Their Own Reading
Data. We’re inundated with it these days. Which has its pros…and also its cons. The data tools we often use for reading might include things like oral reading fluency measures,…
Teaching Kids How to Write a Summary for Nonfiction
In a previous post, I shared one of the easiest, most effective strategies for simplifying narrative summary writing for kids. If you haven’t read that post yet, please take a…
How to Teach Writing a Summary
Research has shown that comprehension is an outcome of a lot of factors. While that may be true, there is actually a lot of skill that goes into comprehension arrival….
Can We Really Fix the Low Reading Test Scores?
In a previous post, I shared why I think NAEP scores keep dropping, despite best efforts and billions of dollars spent. In that post, I named what I believe is…
Why NAEP Scores Keep Dropping: It’s Not Just Phonics
NAEP scores are commonly referred to here in the US. Often, we hear the statistic that 2/3 of our kids “can’t read.” The latest NAEP scores have just come out,…