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132b. Direct Instruction: the evidence

Education Bookcast

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Is Improved Reading Comprehension Hard to Achieve?

It's just better to have the adults and well on top of that they can also point out things because even when you're living in this physical universe giving you feedback it's not always clear what you should be paying attention to. The app to report notes that successful outcomes were harder to come by in reading comprehension than in other skill areas only the direct instruction program made significant and sustained gains in this area. Even then we only reach the 40th percentile on the reading test Becker in 1997 concluded that schools are not designed to teach the English language to quote-unquote poor kids at schools are basically designed for white middle-class children, he said.

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