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Alexandra Shelton; Jade Wexler – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Despite the importance of reading comprehension, many secondary students with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) struggle with this skill. Students with ID also experience greater challenges in foundational literacy skills (i.e., skills related to phonological awareness) and the cognitive skills temporal processing and nonverbal reasoning (Van…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Intellectual Disability
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Alicia A. Stewart; Elizabeth Swanson – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Although many students struggle to comprehend text, some populations of students are particularly impacted. Students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), for example, perform lower on working memory measures, which can make reading comprehension even more difficult (Gropper & Tannock, 2009). Inattention, specifically, appears…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention, Students with Disabilities, Reading Instruction
Gwen J. Pauloski – Solution Tree, 2025
Author Gwen J. Pauloski introduces four flexible adolescent literacy practices that help secondary students make deeper sense of the complex informational texts they encounter in school and beyond. Adolescent readers learn age-appropriate comprehension strategies and practice applying them as they discuss, analyze, and write about their reading.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
Grafwallner, Peg – Solution Tree, 2023
All learning is based on the mastery of essential literary skills, and in this impactful title from author and reading specialist Peg Grafwallner, educators will discover tools they need to embed literacy into all subjects. Using this book's skill-building strategies and reproducibles, educators can effectively teach those literacy skills to…
Descriptors: Literacy, Teaching Methods, Lesson Plans, Reading Comprehension
Margaret Vaughn; Dixie Massey – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
Given the current emphasis on how to teach reading, also known as the debate on the "Science of Reading," this text addresses the fundamentals of reading instruction and provides practical evidence-based research and strategies to support students who may be experiencing reading challenges. With a keen focus on how to apply knowledge of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teacher Competencies
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Spencer Salas; Maryann Mraz; Susan Green; Brian Keith Williams – English Teaching Forum, 2024
This article uses the Stephen Crane story "The Open Boat" (freely available on the American English website) as an anchor text to demonstrate how teachers can apply Raphael's Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) technique to a text that students might be assigned to read. The article includes numerous examples and tips that teachers can…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Responses, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
Stahl, Katherine A. Dougherty; García, Georgia Earnest – Guilford Press, 2022
Students in grades 3-6 need to use increasingly sophisticated comprehension skills and strategies as they read and build knowledge across disciplinary content areas. Grounded in research, this book presents effective practices for integrating literacy instruction with literature, science, and social studies. Chapters address text selection,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Bilingualism, Student Diversity
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Sanders, Sara; Garwood, Justin D. – Preventing School Failure, 2022
Reading comprehension is a critical skill for student success in school, the workplace, and daily life, yet many students display significant reading comprehension deficits. This article describes the impact effective strategy instruction can have on the reading outcomes of students with learning disabilities and related challenges. A discussion…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Instructional Effectiveness
Such, Christopher – SAGE Publications Ltd (UK), 2021
The essential guide to the science behind reading and its practical implications for classroom teaching in primary schools. Teaching children to read is one of the most important tasks in primary education and classroom practice needs to be underpinned by a secure foundation of knowledge. Teachers need to know what reading entails, how children…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice
Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Teachers College Press, 2019
Research shows that vocabulary is the best support for students' comprehension of narrative and information texts. Often, vocabulary instruction focuses on a few target words in specific texts. However, to understand the many new words in complex texts students need to know how words work. This book, written by an award-winning authority on…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Hennessy, Nancy Lewis – Brookes Publishing Company, 2021
Comprehension is a primary ingredient of reading success--but most educators aren't taught how to deliver structured comprehension instruction in their classrooms. K-8 teachers will find the guidance they need in this groundbreaking professional resource from Nancy Hennessy, former IDA President and an expert on reading comprehension. Meticulously…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Susan M. Smartt; Deborah R. Glaser – Brookes Publishing Company, 2024
After a universal screening assessment, how can K-6 educators translate the results into evidence-based instruction, targeted interventions, and improved reading outcomes? The timely new edition of this bestselling book has clear and practical answers. Fully updated with the latest reading research and models, this teacher-friendly planning guide…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Elementary Education, Phonemic Awareness, Phonemes
Henry, Alyssa R.; Solari, Emily J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience associated difficulties in reading comprehension. This may be due to the social nature of fictional texts, which require the reader to interpret what characters are thinking and feeling and to make inferences about the cause and effect between events in a story. This paper outlines…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension
Hougen, Martha C., Ed.; Smartt, Susan M., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2020
Understand the science of reading and how to implement evidence-based instruction to increase the reading and writing achievement of pre-K-6 students, including those at risk for reading difficulties. Fully revised and updated, this core text covers the research base for structured literacy instruction and practical guidance on the essential…
Descriptors: Spelling, Evidence Based Practice, Reading Achievement, Writing Achievement
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Gallagher, Melissa A.; Ellis, Laura; Weiland, Travis – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
In this article, the authors offer four specific reading comprehension strategies that mathematics teachers of all levels can employ with their students when working on word problems: (1) visualizing; (2) retelling; (3) making connections; and (4) asking questions. These strategies, which have a substantial research base in literacy, are discussed…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension
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