A final evaluation of the federal Enhanced Reading Opportunities program suggests that extra, explicit reading classes can boost reading skills for struggling adolescents, but the short-lived ...
First, sell the reading. Motivate the students to read by explaining the reading’s value. Step two, include some pre-reading activities in your class. Preview the reading, identify key concepts that ...
Reading is one of the major components and aids to learning. Whether in college or grad school, many students have a problem establishing when to read. Some prefer to read before class, while others ...
Biology, literature, calculus, U.S. history—all high school courses, regardless of subject, require a strong grasp of one critical skill: reading. By the time students are in high school, especially ...
Those who worry about the reading habits of today’s college students can take heart: They may be reading more than is commonly thought. However, more than 40 percent of the time they spend reading is ...
Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But ...
D avid Jolliffe has seen how much trouble students have had in recent years doing their reading. He has given them a full article or book and watched them struggle to read anything beyond an excerpt.