What barriers do students face when asked to read text and show their comprehension of it? This question was posed by an English/language arts teacher and educational consultant to a group of ...

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Want to help your sixth-grader master reading and writing? Here are some of the skills your sixth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Cite evidence to explain what a story, play, poem, or ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...