Quick, Explicit Vocabulary Instruction Tips for the Time-Crunched
No question about it, one of the of the biggest keys to comprehension is a robust vocabulary. This is especially important when reading grade level or complex text. But students…
Replace, Resist, or Reimagine? How to Deal With New Reading Curriculum
Whether by choice or by force, teachers everywhere have recently adopted a new reading curriculum. In an effort to sell to the masses, these companies typically result in “curriculum bloat,”…
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….