Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge--of Words and the World | By E. D. Hirsh
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Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge--of Words and the World (pdf file, 395k)
Scientific Insights into the Fourth-Grade Slump and Stagnant Reading Comprehension
By E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
With a scientific consensus established on how best to teach decoding, we’ve reached the next reading frontier: increasing reading comprehension. Among poor children, low comprehension is ruining their chances for academic success. Among all children, comprehension scores are stagnant. Convincing research tells us that key to bothproblems is to systematically build children’s vocabulary, fluency, and domain knowledge.
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