Daniel Willingham Blog Can Children Be Taught to Comprehend What they Read?

 Just how much does it help to teach children to use strategies when they read--strategies like creating a graphic organizer of the passage, or summarizing as they read, or asking themselves questions and answering them?I’ve just published an article in Educational Leadership summarizing the research on this question, and I’ll summarize it here.In 2006, I argued that there was lots of evidence that comprehension strategy instruction worked, and in fact, yielded a big boost to co [...]