Skimming and scanning are reading techniques that involve quick eye movements and the
use of keywords to swiftly navigate through text, each serving slightly different purposes …

ABSTRACT Research Findings: Children's ability to tell stories and to understand the stories
of others typically emerges in early childhood, supported by primary caregivers and …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

This fifth edition of this successful title provides teachers with an immediate and
comprehensive source of practical strategies for meeting children's special needs in regular …

The primary purpose of this study was to assess the effects of strategic counting instruction,
with and without deliberate practice with those counting strategies, on number combination …

Although early reading instruction focuses on phonemic awareness and the alphabetic
principle, research indicates that reading comprehension strategies can be effectively taught …

You know that repeating the same words and the same instructions--or simply announcing
the answers to questions--doesn't help students learn. How do you get past the predictable …

Thirty-million Americans are considered functionally illiterate and are unable to complete job
applications or understand health care forms. Fifty-seven percent of adults with disabilities …

The purpose of this study was to conduct a content analysis of the types and occurrences of
explicit instructional moves recommended for teaching five essentials of effective reading …

The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the effect of small-group instruction on the
vocabulary and comprehension of first-grade students identified with low language and low …