Search Content type Content type Show options… Articles Blog Posts Booklists Classroom Strategies Guides and Toolkits Literacy and Education Organizations Pages Profiles Questions Research Reports Web Resources Topic Topic Show options… About Reading Activities Advocacy Afterschool and Community Programs Alphabet Knowledge Assessment and Evaluation Assistive Technology Autism Spectrum Disorder Background Knowledge Children’s Books Classroom Management Common Core Standards Comprehension Content Area Literacy Curriculum and Instruction Developmental Milestones Differentiated Instruction Dyslexia Early Literacy Development Ed Tech and Digital Media English Language Learners Executive Function Fluency Inclusion Intervention and Prevention Learning Disabilities Libraries Motivation Oral Language Parent Engagement Phonics and Decoding Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Preschool and Child Care Print Awareness Professional Development Reading Aloud Reading and the Brain RTI and MTSS School-Wide Efforts Social-Emotional Learning Special Education Speech, Language, and Hearing Spelling and Word Study STEM Literacy Struggling Readers Summer Reading Teacher Education Tutoring and Volunteering Vocabulary Writing Blog Post Water Words and Watersheds Blog Post What Can Librarians Do to Support Student Literacy? Blog Post What Do Primary Grade Children Need to Know about Informational Text? Blog Post When Language Is a Wall Many texts contain language (figurative and literal) that can be a barrier to comprehension. We need to see those language walls and teach students how to scale them so their reading has meaning. Blog Post Why Not Teach Reading Comprehension for a Change? Blog Post Who Should Teach Disciplinary Literacy and Should We Integrate the Curriculum? Blog Post Do you like jigsaw approaches to teaching? Pagination First Previous Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Liked it? Share it!
Blog Post When Language Is a Wall Many texts contain language (figurative and literal) that can be a barrier to comprehension. We need to see those language walls and teach students how to scale them so their reading has meaning.