Right to Read Grasping for Meaning: What It’s Like to Struggle with Reading Comprehension To have productive text-based discussions, we have to pull apart the texts ourselves — hunting for barriers to comprehension at the word, sentence, paragraph, and passage level.
Shanahan on Literacy 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.
