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Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), asserts that reading comprehension is NOT a skill. Yes, good readers use reading skills and strategies to make meaning. But good readers also have a robust knowledge base.  There is strong evidence to support knowledge building ELA curriculum, but we continue to wonder about what knowledge, whose knowledge, and how much? 

Resources

• Recht & Leslie Baseball Study  
• Wanted: A Science of Reading Comprehension movement | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
• Reading comprehension is not a “skill” | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute 
• Why doesn’t increasing knowledge improve reading achievement? Tim Shanahan 
• Ep. 124 Innovative Assessment with the Louisiana Assessment Team Melissa and Lori Love Literacy podcast
• Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch
• What Reading Does for the Mind Cunningham and Stanovich 

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