Post by Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou & Kristen McMaster, University of Minnesota Making Inferences: The Cornerstone of Reading Comprehension Despite the persistent efforts of researchers, policy makers, ...

What barriers do students face when asked to read text and show their comprehension of it? This question was posed by an English/language arts teacher and educational consultant to a group of ...

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There are a lot of things that have improved over the past 50 years, but are still far from perfect: Car safety. Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension instruction ...

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 ...