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Day 14 of 31 Days to Become a Better Reader Challenge: Most Common Prefixes
Some of you may be thinking, what do the most common prefixes have to do with increasing reading comprehension. Actually, they are extremely important and here is why. Studying the etymology of...
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Day 18 of 31 Days to a Better Reader Challenge: Making Predictions
I personally always like to balance the amount of time that I focus on word processing strategies with meaning processing strategies. This is why my teaching is a balanced approach. The strategy that...
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Day 20 of the 31 Days to a Better Reader Challenge: Questioning
Do you have a child who always asks why, why, why? I watch a little boy during the day and this is his favorite question Picture by http://www.hectorz.com Well, when kids are reading and they are...
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Day 23 of 31Days to a Better Reader: Text to Self Connections
Have you ever read something before and all of a sudden you realized that something like that has happened to you? You begin to connect with what the author is saying and all of a sudden you...
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Day 25 of the 31 Days to a Better Reader Challenge: Text to World Connections
Here in the United States we are in the midst of our Presidential Election 2012. The big candidates seem to be Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. This is big news here and this lends itself to a perfect...
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Day 26 of 31 Days to a Better Reader Challenge: Fluency Rate
There is no shortage of speed reading classes available in this day age. In fact, aren’t we supposed to read as fast as we can so that we can get on with the next thing that we need to do. Read,...
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