Why Librarians Are More Crucial Than Ever In the aftermath of the US presidential election, I've been reflecting on what it means to live in a post-truth world. I was shocked to read several accounts explaining that a majority of... Read More ›
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Some key goals for literacy are reading comprehension, being able to identify main ideas, and summarization skills. There are many excellent practices that can help students develop these abilities. Recently I came across a creative technique called " Text Reduction Strategy" ( see the article here by Andrea Heick at TeachThought).
It's a number that tends to jumps out at you: one in every five students has dyslexia. That means there's bound to be at least one student with some sort of reading difficulty in pretty much every classroom. But teachers may not know how to help these students.