The Knowledge Matters Podcast
The Knowledge Matters Podcast
Knowledge Matters
Why Strategy-First Reading Instruction Holds Students Back | Know Better, Do Better
24 minutes Posted Oct 22, 2024 at 10:00 am.
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Season 2 Episode 3 | When’s the last time you finished a chapter of a book and thought, “Hmmm, what was the main idea?” Competent readers don’t ask themselves this question. They’re too busy focusing on the text itself, not the component strategies that help us understand them. But that’s not how traditional curriculum and instructional practices work. Instead, they teach reading through a strategy-first approach that focuses on skills like making inferences and predictions, not th...