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Reading skills and benchmarks

Reading Skills and Benchmarks: Construction Zone Warning for Parents!

Reading skills are a construction zone of Benchmarks.  Architects and carpenters are builders who use ‘benches’ and ‘blueprints’ for tools as they build their structures.  Teachers and parents are architects and builders also.  Their ‘benches’ and ‘blueprints’ just look different when assessing reading skills. Benchmarks are the benches and blueprints for teachers and parents, as […]

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Reading Comprehension and Cloze

READING COMPREHENSION AND CLOZE: Do You Know How To CLOZE? Grade 2 and Grade 3

Reading Comprehension and CLOZE. The prize to reading is comprehension!  We read for pleasure, and to gain knowledge and information.  Just like any good recipe, there are several ingredients necessary for developing reading comprehension strategies:  [Building the Reading Brain PreK-3 by Patricia Wolfe and Pamela Nevills] Ingredients for Reading Comprehension:  Using generous spoonfuls of: Vocabulary

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