Tag: reading comprehension
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Writing Is the Reading Skill Nobody’s Talking About
A landmark meta-analysis from Graham and Hebert (2011) showed something that should have changed every reading curriculum in America but mostly didn’t: writing about what you read significantly improves comprehension. Not a little. Significantly.
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Phonics Fixed Everything… Right? Why Reading Is Bigger Than Decoding
Over the past five years, we’ve heard a lot about the “science of reading” and phonics. It’s been the big fix, the magic bullet, the thing that was going to transform struggling readers everywhere. And phonics absolutely matters. But here’s what nobody told you: phonics is necessary but it’s not sufficient.