The new question-of-the-week is: How can we use “writing frames” and “writing structures” without students feeling like they always have to do formulaic writing? Different contributors to this series ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...

Text structure. Text structure is one specific type of prior (or background) knowledge that skilled readers possess. Good readers can identify important information in a text and are aware of how ...