Young students benefit from both discrete skill training and explicit instruction in storytelling to improve their language and reading comprehension

Young students benefit from both discrete skill training and explicit instruction in storytelling to improve their language and reading comprehension

Listening to, telling, reading, and writing stories gives students opportunities to work on multiple language targets at the same time while also learning a useful…

Why background knowledge about the world can increase reading comprehension – even for facts you can just Google (with 2021 research update and free resources to boost your child’s background knowledge)

Why background knowledge about the world can increase reading comprehension – even for facts you can just Google (with 2021 research update and free resources to boost your child’s background knowledge)

It seems obvious but I’ll state it anyway: we read things to understand them. If students can’t understand what they’re reading at school, they will…