How can teachers effectively help all students read, understand, and apply the ideas and information in the variety of texts they read – from poetry to physics?

How can teachers effectively help all students read, understand, and apply the ideas and information in the variety of texts they read – from poetry to physics?
This guide offers specific recommendations to help educators identify students in need of intervention and implement evidence-based interventions to promote their reading
achievement.
The depth and breadth of the research on reading and the complexities of life in the classroom, especially when the variation among students is substantial, means answers are neither simple nor easily translated to practice.
The purpose of this monograph is to try to summarize, explain, and provide advice for teachers about how to use the findings of the National Reading Panel Report.
The practical significance of different word meaning types is relevant for encouraging larger vocabularies, especially for children who acquire significantly below-average size vocabularies. There is clear evidence that children with smaller vocabularies as early as age 5 or younger tend to comprehend read texts less well in later years.
This paper describes the origins of the widely used curriculum-based measure of oral reading fluency (ORF) and how the creation and use of ORF norms has evolved over time.
Dr. Pamela A. Mason is known for her work studying the role of culturally sustaining pedagogy in promoting literacy achievement, the interaction of text complexity and background knowledge, qualitative and quantitative literacy assessment, and the efficacy of the roles of Reading Specialists and Literacy Coaches.
In this chapter we examine motivation and engagement, the relationship between them, and how to foster both factors in our reading classrooms.
How can teachers prepare young learners for the language demands of content area texts? This article presents linguistically informed strategies to support young learners navigating informational texts.
To say that one has comprehended a text is to say that she has found a mental “home” for the information in the text, or else that she has modified an existing mental home in order to accommodate that new information.