Effective Literacy Lesson: Teaching Identification of Cause and Effect Relationships in Texts By: Anna Gibbs, Ph.D. Posted on: April 27, 2021 This video demonstration explains the importance of this comprehension skill and how to teach it.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Improving Comprehension Through Story Mapping By: Leah Zimmermann, Ph.D. Posted on: February 25, 2020 Teach middle school students to use a story map graphic organizer when reading a literary text.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Teaching Consonant Digraphs By: Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D. Posted on: January 14, 2020 This decoding skill helps students read, understand, and independently spell words.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Understanding Compound Words Through Their Two Word Parts By: Anna Gibbs, Ph.D.Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D. Posted on: October 22, 2019 Teach students to read and understand a compound word by identifying the two words that make it.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Constructing an Argumentative Claim By: Leah Zimmermann, Ph.D. Posted on: October 8, 2019 Students learn to write a debatable, focused, and clear claim with this instructional approach.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Making and Evaluating Predictions to Support Comprehension By: Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D. Posted on: September 24, 2019 An instructional sequence shows how to help students integrate new info with their mental representation of the text.