Subtitles unlikely to improve early reading skills, researchers find
Public campaigns backed by celebrities and politicians have argued that television subtitles may dramatically improve children's reading abilities. However, there has been no convincing research ...
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Want to Improve Early Reading Comprehension? Start With Sentence Structure
We speak differently than we write. For comprehension development, children need exposure to syntax common to both.
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Don’t count kindergarten out. Here is why
By the time Ana made it to my kindergarten classroom as a repeater, she felt defeated — anxious, frustrated, and convinced that reading was out of reach. Her previous struggles with literacy had ...
Student-led conference empowers Hong Kong and Macau girls to break the code in STEM
CodeHers, which had more than 350 attendees this year, hopes to address the gender imbalance in tech, engineering and other ...
Education Week17d
Reading Comprehension Teaching Has Improved—But Not Nearly Enough
There are a lot of things that have improved over the past 50 years, but are still far from perfect: Car safety. Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension ...
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Reading comprehension loses out in the classroom
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