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Mitchell, Karen E. – Teaching Pre K-8, 2006
While many teachers teach comprehension strategies by concentrating on isolated skills, often in the form of worksheet drills, comprehension is actually an active, constructive process that occurs before, during and after reading a particular selection. In order to comprehend reading material, readers must merge the knowledge they already own,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Strategies, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension

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