The consequences of not providing explicit reading comprehension strategy instruction are
costly to students in elementary school and beyond. “Most
readers who are not explicitly taught cognitive procedures are unlikely to learn, develop, or use
them spontaneously” . By shortchanging our elementary students of reading comprehension,
we leave them ill-prepared for the academic demands of secondary school. In fact, an
overwhelming number, nearly nine million, of today’s 4th- through 12th-graders struggle to read
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their textbooks . Pressley and Afflerbach pointed to evidence that many
students progress to college without learning the reading comprehension strategies employed
by proficient readers; as such, 53% of high school graduates enroll in postsecondary remedial
courses (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001).
In a chapter examining comprehension instruction in the primary grades, Block and Lacina
(2009) traced the academic importance of reading comprehension to today’s No Child Left
Behind federal legislation, which requires comprehension instruction to be one of five major
instructional components taught in K-3 schools. Shaped largely by the report Preventing Reading
Difficulties in Young Children and the National Reading Panel
report , No Child Left Behind sets the expectation that all students will read at grade
level by 2014. To achieve this goal, K-3 schools should provide transactional strategy lessons,
with the goal of “developing students who, on their own, use the comprehension strategies that
excellent readers use” .
The consequences of not providing explicit reading comprehension strategy instruction arecostly to students in elementary school and beyond. “Mostreaders who are not explicitly taught cognitive procedures are unlikely to learn, develop, or usethem spontaneously” . By shortchanging our elementary students of reading comprehension,we leave them ill-prepared for the academic demands of secondary school. In fact, anoverwhelming number, nearly nine million, of today’s 4th- through 12th-graders struggle to readDownloaded by [24.9.167.149] at 13:46 06 December 2012 READING COMPREHENSION IN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS 101their textbooks . Pressley and Afflerbach pointed to evidence that manystudents progress to college without learning the reading comprehension strategies employedby proficient readers; as such, 53% of high school graduates enroll in postsecondary remedialcourses (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001).In a chapter examining comprehension instruction in the primary grades, Block and Lacina(2009) traced the academic importance of reading comprehension to today’s No Child LeftBehind federal legislation, which requires comprehension instruction to be one of five majorinstructional components taught in K-3 schools. Shaped largely by the report Preventing ReadingDifficulties in Young Children and the National Reading Panelreport , No Child Left Behind sets the expectation that all students will read at gradeระดับ โดย 2014 เพื่อให้บรรลุเป้าหมายนี้ K 3 โรงเรียนควรให้เรียนกลยุทธ์มูลโดยมีเป้าหมายเพื่อ "พัฒนานักเรียนที่ ตนเอง ใช้กลยุทธ์ความเข้าใจ ที่อ่านสะดวกใช้"
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