Show Notes
Maybe you’ve seen it in your classroom: Students who zip through chapters but then can’t tell you much about what they just read. To move those kids from fluency to sense-making, you’ve got to teach them the habits of good independent readers.
In this episode of School of Practice, educator and literacy specialist Nina Parrish walks us through evidence-based strategies that keep kids focused as they tackle challenging texts—from pre-reading tactics that make vocabulary stick and activate prior knowledge, to active reading protocols that turn kids into engaged, metacognitive readers who are always asking themselves, “Did I really understand that?”
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5 Ways to Support Students Who Struggle With Reading Comprehension
5 Research-Backed Ways to Build Better Readers
4 Reading Strategies to Retire This Year (Plus 6 to Try Out!)
How to Move From the ‘Main Idea’ to ‘Background Knowledge’
Slowing Down the Reading Process to Build Students’ Comprehension Skills
Aiding Reading Comprehension With Post-its
4 Ways to Teach Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension
Sweeping Round Robin Reading Out of Your Classroom
Research: Promoting Fluency Through Challenge: Repeated Reading With Texts of Varying Complexity
Research: A Longitudinal Randomized Trial of a Sustained Content Literacy Intervention from First to Second Grade: Transfer Effects on Students’ Reading Comprehension
Research: Effects of a Read Aloud Intervention on First Grade Student Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension, and Language Proficiency
Research: Understanding Specific Reading Comprehension Deficit: A Review
Research: The Effect of Mandatory Reading Logs on Children’s Motivation to Read
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