Why Main Idea is Not the Main Idea – Or, How Best to Teach Reading Comprehension
Shanahan on Literacy
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Effective Instructional Approaches for Reading Comprehension
The chapter emphasizes the need to teach reading comprehension strategies beyond just identifying main ideas, advocating for approaches that include summarizing, understanding text structure, and paraphrasing to connect main ideas to overall content. It stresses the importance of promoting integrated thinking about text content rather than mere fact recall for students.
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