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Maguet, McKenna Louise; Morrison, Timothy G.; Wilcox, Brad; Billen, Monica T. – Reading Psychology, 2021
Reading comprehension is the goal of reading, and making inferences is vital. Authors usually expect readers to make multiple types of inferences, including anaphoric, background knowledge, predictive, and retrospective. Common core assessments include all of these, yet instructional materials focus mostly on only one type, retrospective. This…
Descriptors: Children, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Ness, Molly; Kenny, MaryBeth – Reading Teacher, 2016
An essential element in teaching children to effectively comprehend text is the use of teacher-led think alouds. This article presents a three-step model to improve the quality and quantity of think alouds in K-6 classrooms. The article follows elementary teachers who planned, implemented, transcribed, and reflected upon think aloud lessons to…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students
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Altieri, Jennifer L. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
The C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards emphasizes the literacy skills demanded by social studies. Students who walk through the classroom doors may not have a great deal of experience with informational text written on social studies topics, and this experience is critical for building vocabulary, evaluating sources, strengthening…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Literacy, Information Literacy, Reading Skills
Care, Esther; Vista, Alvin; Kim, Helyn – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2020
This paper marks the second in a series of five reports detailing the work of the Optimizing Assessment for All (OAA) project at Brookings to strengthen education systems capacity to integrate 21st century skills into teaching and learning, using assessment as a lever for changing classroom practices. Twenty-first century skills (21CS) are now…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, 21st Century Skills, Teaching Methods, Student Evaluation
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Lee, Joohi – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2015
This article presents effective strategies for educators of young children to promote children's mathematical communications, which include think-aloud during individual work time, utilizing reasoning and proof questions, and questioning back to children.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Communication Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Mathematical Logic
Mesmer, Heidi Anne E. – Teachers College Press, 2016
Tired of hearing about "complex text"? Bothered by the pushy messages about "challenge"? This book is for you! Unlike the many other materials on text complexity, this one focuses on specific comprehension skills that students need in order to really engage with text. This book will help elementary school teachers equip their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Ness, Molly – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
An essential element in teaching children to effectively comprehend text is the use of teacher-led think-alouds. The overarching objective of this study was to explore how to better prepare early career teachers to conduct think-alouds in their classrooms. Data from 31 teachers consisted of (1) questionnaires, (2) lesson plans, (3) lesson…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Protocol Analysis, Reading Instruction
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Trocki, Aaron; Taylor, Christine; Starling, Tina; Sztajn, Paola; Heck, Daniel – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2014
The idea of elementary school students working together on mathematical tasks is not new, but recent attention to creating purposeful discourse in mathematics classrooms prompts teachers to revisit discourse-promoting strategies for mathematics lessons. The Common Core's Standards for Mathematical Practice (CCSSI 2010) encourage teachers to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Coleman, Julianne; McTigue, Erin – Science and Children, 2013
This article reports on the usage of Interactive read-alouds to help students decode science diagrams and other visual information. Three short vignettes are featured from a second-grade teacher, illustrating the research-based recommendations for introducing students to the graphics of science within an authentic classroom activity--the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Vignettes, Grade 2, Elementary School Science
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Dougherty Stahl, Katherine A. – Reading Teacher, 2014
Inference generation makes a strong, unique contribution to reading comprehension. Young children engage in many of the same inference generation processes as sophisticated readers. This article discusses instructional practices that can be used in prekindergarten through grade two to help children think beyond the words of the text. Suggestions…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Young Children
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Stahl, Katherine A. Dougherty – Reading Teacher, 2012
Challenging texts can be made accessible to students by increasing the level of instructional scaffolding. This article describes evidence-based models of shared reading that support reading development across the elementary years. Shared Reading Experience (Holdaway, 1982), Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (Stahl & Heubach, 2005),…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Models, Protocol Analysis
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Frey, Nancy; Douglas, Fisher – Educational Leadership, 2013
The Common State Standards require that students master increasingly complex informational text. But how can we enable students to meet this challenging goal? "We don't simply expect our students to hurtle themselves headlong into a piece of complex informational text alone," write Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher. Instead, teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Northrop, Laura; Killeen, Erin – Reading Teacher, 2013
The quick adoption of iPads into the classroom, coupled with the many apps targeting early literacy skills, offers a new way to build early literacy skills with emergent and beginning readers. However, young children may be more proficient with the technology than with the literacy concepts, and may not be maximizing learning, or even learning at…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Young Children, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices
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Cummins, Sunday; Stallmeyer-Gerard, Cate – Reading Teacher, 2011
The purpose of this article is to describe the assessment-driven instruction that facilitated third graders' increased understanding of informational texts, as revealed in their written responses to texts during one school year. The key instructional practices included making transparent for students what it means to synthesize, engaging students…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Teaching Methods, Reader Response, Nonfiction
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Cummins, Sunday; Quiroa, Ruth E. – Reading Teacher, 2012
The purpose of this "teaching tips" article is to describe practical classroom instruction that helps elementary students write expository responses to narrative texts. It focuses on the importance of scaffolded, interactive discussions comprised of a combination of teacher think alouds and similar student responses before, during, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Protocol Analysis, Teaching Methods
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