“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...

Students review about what an inference is and they will use their inferencing skills. In this lesson, students will review about what an inference is and they will use their inferencing skills to ...

Some components of reading comprehension don't lend themselves well to scientific study, with the result that one component--"skills and strategies"--has come to overshadow the others. The middle of a ...

This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of a strategy for making text-dependent inferences—with and without embedded self-regulation skills—on the reading comprehension of 24 middle-grade ...

Post by Ben Seipel, University of Wisconsin-River Falls/California State University, Chico; with Gina Biancarosa, University of Oregon; Sarah E. Carlson, Georgia State University; and Mark L. Davison, ...