To help educators support K-12 students who are struggling with reading comprehension ... such as descriptive passages, representation of cause and effect, elements to compare and contrast ...
I often compare a reading passage to the child’s game Jenga ... Read-alouds are a crucial tool for building vocabulary and background knowledge until reading comprehension catches up with listening ...
“Teachers at many schools shifted from books to short informational passages.” Reading whole books, for pleasure or purely for knowledge and information, is a developed habit. If there is ...