These reproducible items for school and classroom use are to be used in conjunction with Teaching Reading Comprehension.
~Great questions to ask yourself, and students in relation to different Reading Comprehension Strategies!
So we decided to add a backchannel to the reading. While one of us reads, the kids in both classrooms and the other teacher chat in a today's meet room, discussing the text, asking questions, making predictions and dropping in great pieces of the text as it is read aloud over skype.
Douglas Reeves's consulting website (The Leadership and Learning Center), where he keeps full PDF text for many of his articles, past and present. SCORE! Check out this treasure trove of reading
"when students improve the quaintly and quality of their writing, they improve in reading comprehension, math, science, and social studies."
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For much of the last century, educators and many scientists believed that children could not learn math at all before the age of five, that their brains simply were not ready.
But recent research has turned that assumption on its head - that, and a host of other conventional wisdom about geometry, reading, language and self-control in class.