Teaching Comprehension Chapter Sixteen

Behavioral Models often use demonstrating (modeling) practice, and the formative study of student learning. Studies of mnemonics, inductive learning, and cooperative learning have learned how important it is for students to understand and study processes of learning – Metacognition.

Scholars on the teaching of comprehension in reading and composing in writing have built models of teaching where * Rationale *Modeling *Formative study of learning (by teacher and student) are synthesized.

Explicit teaching of comprehension centers on the processes that very accomplished readers use to extract meaning from text. In other words, the objective is to teach all readers the strategies that very good readers use. Similarly, in writing, to teach all students the strategies that very good writers use to compose sentences, paragraphs, and longer pieces.