Differentiated Reading Instruction
While the National Reading Panel concluded the readers of all ability levels benefit from comprehension strategy instruction the instruction provided must match the needs o the learner.
one sixe does not fit all. As Pressley and his colleagues observed, “There is no reason to waste instructional resources by teaching a strategy to someone who already employs it”
The process of teaching strategies is complex, and the research on how best to prepare teachers for the task is limited.
Yet it is becoming increasingly clear that children in classrooms in which strategy instruction is a sustained, ongoing aspect of reading instruction outperform those who experience more traditional approaches on assessments of reading comprehension