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Article: Reading comprehension strategies in secondary content-area classrooms; Many middle and high school students lack the strategies they need to comprehend the demanding content-area textbooks used in secondary classrooms. And their teachers lack the time and knowledge to help them develop those strategies. Ms. Ness offers suggestions for overcoming both of these obstacles to student success.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
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- November 1, 2007
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AS STUDENTS move up through the grades, the academic demands on them increase, and a great many of those increases come in the form of reading. While basic literacy is certainly a problem for some students, they are in the minority. Most of our middle and high school students can read--if by that we understand the ability to "decode" text.
But the academic tasks students encounter in the upper elementary grades, and even more so in secondary school, involve a great deal of reading in support of learning new and complicated content. As Michael Kamil has reported, the ability to comprehend the expository texts in content-area textbooks is critical to students' ...