Vocabulary and comprehension are soul mates! They go together like cheese and crackers, bread and jam, friendship and trust. The more words students have the better they can read and comprehend. With a wealth of words, students can write and be creative and innovative problem solvers. We’ve
“Words are a narcotic for you,” a colleague quipped when I’d rounded the corner and sprinted into my 14th email lap, wordsmithing the subtitle of a book I’d just edited for Corwin Literacy’s spring list. And she’s correct—I love language. One reason I’ve been a
Daily instruction on comprehension in reading During the last 30 years, scholars on learning-to-read have developed and studied a number of practical avenues to teach reading— particularly how to teach students to find the meaning in text (see, especially, Duffy, G.G. (2003) Explaining Reading, N.Y.: Guilford
Having established that argument is a big deal and worth much of our time and energy as teachers and students, let’s spend some time examining reading and writing today. I am always tweaking the non-freaked out approach (as you’ll see by comparing this post’s diagram with