The Search for Meaning: How You Can Boost Kids' Reading Comprehension
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| author | Grimes, Sharon |
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| contents | The Search for Meaning: How You Can Boost Kids' Reading Comprehension Grimes, Sharon Program Effectiveness Elementary School Students Prior Learning Reading Comprehension Reading Instruction Poverty Reading Improvement Reading Difficulties Teaching Methods Change Strategies A few years ago, most of the students at Lansdowne Elementary were struggling readers: while many could recognize words, half were unable to under stand the stories they'd just read. Not surprisingly, these kids weren't interested in books. The problem wasn't Why Johnnie Can't Read, but more specifically, Why Johnnie Can't Understand--and the answer had a lot to do with poverty. How did the school turn this situation around? By recognizing that the teaching staff needed to overhaul the way it taught reading comprehension. This article describes the five steps the school took to transform apathetic students into eager, active readers. |
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| spellingShingle | The Search for Meaning: How You Can Boost Kids' Reading Comprehension Grimes, Sharon Program Effectiveness Elementary School Students Prior Learning Reading Comprehension Reading Instruction Poverty Reading Improvement Reading Difficulties Teaching Methods Change Strategies The Search for Meaning: How You Can Boost Kids' Reading Comprehension Grimes, Sharon Program Effectiveness Elementary School Students Prior Learning Reading Comprehension Reading Instruction Poverty Reading Improvement Reading Difficulties Teaching Methods Change Strategies A few years ago, most of the students at Lansdowne Elementary were struggling readers: while many could recognize words, half were unable to under stand the stories they'd just read. Not surprisingly, these kids weren't interested in books. The problem wasn't Why Johnnie Can't Read, but more specifically, Why Johnnie Can't Understand--and the answer had a lot to do with poverty. How did the school turn this situation around? By recognizing that the teaching staff needed to overhaul the way it taught reading comprehension. This article describes the five steps the school took to transform apathetic students into eager, active readers. |
| title | The Search for Meaning: How You Can Boost Kids' Reading Comprehension |
| topic | Program Effectiveness Elementary School Students Prior Learning Reading Comprehension Reading Instruction Poverty Reading Improvement Reading Difficulties Teaching Methods Change Strategies |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ703567 |