Comprehension and Levelled Text
February 1, 2024
Teacher question: I have been reading a blog that suggests that we do away with levelled text for comprehension instruction. The reasoning is that too often we are subjecting students to text at what is supposedly an instructional level but which has no real comprehension ch...
Getting them to think WHILE they are reading
December 14, 2017
What has struck me again and again during the whirlwind of workshops in the last few months has been that no matter where we go or who the audience is, whether it be mainstream classes in NZ, students from diverse cultures in International schools in Hong Kong, Chinese...
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