But young children can benefit from explicit comprehension instruction (Meyer & Wijekumar, 2010; Williams, 2003), and teaching them about the ways in which text is structure is a promising focus for ...

There’s a lot one could write about Galileo, the Italian astronomer and physicist. But on a snowy Friday morning in December, during a lesson helping students draft essays about outer space, teacher ...

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 ...

Students learn the basic text structures of nonfiction and how to use them. In this lesson, students learn the basic text structures of nonfiction and how to use them. Mrs. Wright will read "What is ...

Research clearly shows both the importance of using a plan to compose structurally sound text and the benefits to the reader of such text. The Structured-text Evaluation Procedure (STEP) standardizes ...

The Reading Teacher, Vol. 64, No. 3, Reading in Grades 4-6: Focus on Expository Reading (NOVEMBER 2010), pp. 166-178 (13 pages) ...

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 ...