But young children can benefit from explicit comprehension instruction (Meyer & Wijekumar, 2010; Williams, 2003), and teaching them about the ways in which text is structure is a promising focus for ...

Try a straightforward three-step strategy to help students get comfortable with exploring challenging reading assignments.

Students will learn about cause and effect. In this lesson, students will learn about cause and effect. Then they will listen to a read-aloud of Who Would Win? Lion vs Tiger and find examples of cause ...

There’s a lot one could write about Galileo, the Italian astronomer and physicist. But on a snowy Friday morning in December, during a lesson helping students draft essays about outer space, teacher ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can we use “writing frames” and “writing structures” without students feeling like they always have to do formulaic writing? Different contributors to this series ...

Students learn the basic text structures of nonfiction and how to use them. In this lesson, students learn the basic text structures of nonfiction and how to use them. Mrs. Wright will read "What is ...

Questions? Contact [email protected]. A teaching circle is a small group of faculty and other instructional staff who meet regularly on campus and/or via Zoom to discuss a specific teaching and learning ...

I n many courses, the days after the first exam can be stressful. Some students might feel worried about the results, or even doubt their abilities. So at the end of one challenging exam, a professor ...

Motivation is often considered a natural human attitude that students simply have or that teachers might merely "inspire." Let's use Daniel Kahneman's research in Thinking, Fast and Slow to consider ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...