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Research-based Component 8 - Listening/Reading Comprehension

 
  • Neuhaus Education Center classes espouse the importance of reading to students and provide teachers with strategies that enhance listening and reading comprehension.
  • Listening comprehension is the precursor of reading comprehension. As students listen to text they can apply strategies for comprehension without the impediment of reading. When students are read to at levels above their independent reading levels, they increase vocabulary, world knowledge, and concepts that aid comprehension and word recognition skills.
  • As decoding becomes automatic, students read text independently to gain meaning. Instruction in identifying text genre and strategies for monitoring comprehension aid students in their ability to gain information from the text.
 

References

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