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Effective Comprehension Strategies for Struggling Readers

Although most teachers primarily rely on simple recall, Richard Arlington has concluded that these six comprehension strategies are the most effective for students who need help understanding what they read.

1 Aug 2025 Gini Musmanno Comprehension, Education, Free Tips, Parent No Comments Permalink Read Post

For Parents of Preschoolers

If you want to teach preschoolers the letters of the alphabet, use lower case first. Most of what we read is lower case. 

1 May 2025 Gini Musmanno Education, Parent, Word Analysis No Comments Permalink Read Post

The Power of Visualization

Visualizations that students have developed after reading novels and poetry have been my most powerful class activities.

1 Apr 2025 Gini Musmanno Comprehension, Education, Learning Lessons, Retelling, Visualization No Comments Permalink Read Post

Retelling: Comprehension Insight

If you have a perplexing pupil who sounds like a good reader but doesn’t seem to understand what is read, insights from retelling of a passage can be very helpful. Spend a short 10-15 minutes to demystify that student with a simple retelling strategy.   Retelling is a short, informative approach that can reveal how students recall, order, /or evaluate. It can produce remarkable illumination into the thinking skills of a baffling student.    You can determine  1. if students can discern the beginning, middle, and end of a selection.  2. if they can recognize who? what/ when?...

1 Mar 2025 Gini Musmanno Comprehension, Education, Retelling No Comments Permalink Read Post
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