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Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences and Syllable Types for Word Identification

By:

Anna Gibbs, Ph.D.

Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D.

Leah Zimmermann, Ph.D.

Posted on: November 27, 2018

Teach students to use a word box to practice letter-sound correspondences or syllables for decoding words.

Teacher pointing to text on the projector

Text Structure Mapping: A Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension of Informational Texts

By:

Leah Zimmermann, Ph.D.

Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D.

Anna Gibbs, Ph.D.

Posted on: November 6, 2018

An overview of text structures, why they matter for students’ comprehension of informational text, and a deeper look at text structure mapping as an instructional tool.