Reviewing the five Ws (who, what, where, when and why) and an H (how) after reading a text can improve students' knowledge, understanding and memory of what they just read. This tactic encourages ...

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Deep comprehension requires engaging students in discussion and reasoning with text, which supports them to ask questions, to draw on prior knowledge and develop new knowledge, to make predictions ...

There’s been a lot of concern about phonics instruction in recent months, sparked by an illuminating new audio documentary. But there’s another aspect of reading—comprehension—that is ...

Digital reading and comprehension. In 2011, scientists reviewed 99 studies exploring the effect of print reading on children’s comprehension skills. As one would expect, they found a sizable one. The ...