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85. Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham

Education Bookcast

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Writing and Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension depends on combining the ideas in a passage, not just comprehending each idea on its own. Writers assume that the reader has the knowledge to fill the gaps. But writers can't include all the factual details. If they did, prose would be impossibly long and tedious.

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