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Decoding and Comprehension Go Hand in Hand

"The most direct route to good reading comprehension is to make the word recognition process automatic so a student can focus all of his...

Improve Reading for Older Students

Sharon Vaughn and Jack Fletcher's "Response to Intervention with Older Students with Reading Difficulties", published in 2008, identifies...

Teaching Reading is Rocket Science

Beware of anyone who tells you that teaching reading is simple or that it can be simplified into a few easy steps. Reading is much more...

Higher Level Thinking Matter!

One of the unique aspects of the Connect to Comprehension program is that it focuses on upper-level comprehension skills while students...

Climbing Two Mountains

As more and more of us begin to learn about the Science of Reading, we are focusing on phonemic awareness and phonics. These are critical...

Literacy Impacts

Lack of literacy skills constitutes a national emergency. We cannot expect our students to learn by giving them workbook pages or by...

Pillars of Instruction

Connect to Comprehension instruction and practice are solidly based on these five pillars and are directly aligned with the NRP's...

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