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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 Main Idea Is Not the Main Idea — or, How Best to Teach Reading Comprehension Focus on summarizing, text structure analysis, and paraphrasing — those skills require more integrated thinking about a text’s content.