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"Reading Success with Expository Texts Struggling readers present secondary classroom teachers with unique challenges. Secondary teachers are experts in their subject areas but they have not been trained to "teach" reading. However, when given an expository text, struggling readers require intervention in order to understand what they are reading. This week, we offer a series of tips teachers can implement immediately to help struggling readers comprehend expository text."

Reading Skills, Teaching Today, Glencoe Online

"Making Thinking Visible by David Perkins "

Teaching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas

Fostering High Levels of Reading and Learning in Secondary Students An Invited Commentary Michael F. Graves University of Minnesota

Comprehension Instruction: What Makes Sense Now, What Might Make Sense Soon Michael Pressley There are a variety of well-validated ways to increase comprehension skills in students through instruction; these are summarized in this article. In addition, new hypotheses about effective comprehension instruction are emerging, and these are also summarized. Although too little comprehension instruction is now occurring in schools, much is known that would enable such teaching to be done with confidence; more will be known as the emerging hypotheses are evaluated in the years ahead.

January workshop wiki

"Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students"