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March 2010 | Volume 67 | Number 6
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How to guide readers to approach texts through the frame of a particular academic discipline.
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Multiple informative texts offer readers more than conventional compendiums do.
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The sting of being grouped can give struggling students inadvertent permission to give up.
Donalyn Miller
To become good readers, students need to read and read and read.
Kelly Gallagher
Which practices hasten the decline of reading, and which boost the reading habit?
Cynthia Barry
Does great literature still speak to the young? Yes, when they have the chance to probe and question profound ideas.
Grant Wiggins
When the questions demand reasoning and inference, tests can be a teaching tool.
Joanne K. Olson and Kouider Mokhtari
Why reading strategies alone won't help students comprehend science concepts.
Ruth Shagoury
How to introduce reading to preschoolers.
Ellin Oliver Keene
Encouraging students to routinely apply strategies makes them better readers.
William G. Brozo and Douglas Fisher
How to inspire the whole faculty to bolster adolescents' content-area reading skills.
Bruce Hansen
Would a lesson that engaged Kendra be appropriate for Gerard?
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William M. Ferriter
Thomas R. Hoerr
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Among the higher level skills our students need is the ability to generate thoughtful questions.
Erika Daniels
An urban high school creates a reading support class for 9th graders struggling with reading comprehension.
Marie Carbo
Learning-style reading strategies benefit all kinds of readers.
Jill Ostrow and Jane Wellman
Family books and videos help ELLs practice literacy at school and home.
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Kids are off and running on their timed speed tests, but do they know what they are reading?
Jamie Greene
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