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.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Using Context Clues to Understand New Words By: Anna Gibbs, Ph.D. Posted on: October 20, 2020 Learn three types of context clues for understanding vocabulary in a text and download a graphic organizer for children and teens to use when reading.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Using a K-W-L Chart to Activate Background Knowledge By: Emma Tee Posted on: May 12, 2020 Use this approach to build knowledge about a topic while reading a book at home.
Supporting Your Children's and Teens' Home Learning: Retelling a Story Using a Graphic Organizer By: Anna Gibbs, Ph.D.Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D. Posted on: March 31, 2020 Children can practice their comprehension skills using this approach and our included graphic organizer.
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: 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: 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.
Research Brief: Discussing a Vocabulary Graphic Organizer with an Online Partner May Help Students Learn Science Content By: Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D. Posted on: September 10, 2019 Students using the electronic organizer with online discussion showed a stronger path to increased science learning.
What Am I Thinking?: During Reading Strategies By: Tracy Donohue Posted on: June 28, 2016 Asking questions is a great strategy for young readers to use before, during, and after reading to help monitor their comprehension.
Forming Opinions By: Tracy Donohue Posted on: June 14, 2016 A review of an Iowa Reading Research Center tool that helps children form and express opinions about what they are reading.