Scan any list of reading comprehension strategies and you’re bound to spot one term several times: background knowledge. You may be told readers need to activate background knowledge or make inferences using background knowledge or predict what’s coming next with background knowledge. But you may not be told exactly how to help students build background… Read More

Reading is perhaps the most crucial skill for students to learn — but when reading comprehension doesn’t track with decoding ability, students miss out on the benefits (and the joys) of reading. Put simply, reading comprehension is the ability to take the lines and squiggles on a page and gain meaning from them. Students may… Read More