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Direct linkJolene B. Reed; Melinda M. Miller – Reading Teacher, 2025
Some readers thrive more than others because they are more actively involved in their learning. All students can become active participants in their learning through quality teacher prompting. In this article, teachers will learn how to promote emergent learners' active participation as they decode and comprehend, while problem-solving unknown…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Prompting
Gillian Mary Smith – Global Studies of Childhood, 2025
This study takes a more holistic look at reading support, to explore what else is happening in this teaching and learning context, beyond the acquisition of a more secure knowledge of decoding skills. Children are deemed in need of a reading support intervention when their literacy skills are assessed as being significantly below the levels…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Decoding (Reading), Holistic Approach, Teaching Methods
Jen O'Sullivan – Reading Teacher, 2026
This article explores the vital but often overlooked role of inferencing in early reading comprehension. While foundational decoding skills such as phonological awareness and fluency are essential, reading comprehension depends equally on children's ability to construct meaning beyond the words on the page. Drawing on the "Simple View of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading Skills, Skill Development, Inferences
Timothy Shanahan – Harvard Education Press, 2025
In "Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives," leading literacy expert Timothy Shanahan curates a lively tour of the history of reading instruction in the United States, arguing that the most popular reading instruction method is failing students and suppressing their literacy achievement. He breaks down the reasons why teachers and researchers…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Educational History, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
Rose Brooks; Meesha Warmington; Jenny Thomson – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Vocabulary teaching has traditionally focused on word meanings to aid reading comprehension, however evidence also suggests that vocabulary knowledge influences phonemic awareness and word reading. Vocabulary instruction concentrating on the sound structure of new words alongside meaning (combined sound-meaning vocabulary instruction) improves…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Intervention, Phonemic Awareness
John Z. Strong; Laura S. Tortorelli; Blythe E. Anderson – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
Many adolescent readers experience difficulties comprehending informational text, which may result from underlying difficulties with foundational skills (e.g., word recognition and fluency), knowledge demands (e.g., background, text structure, and vocabulary), and/or reading motivation. Supplemental interventions for adolescents targeting only…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
