Volume 1, Issue 28 – Teaching Reading Comprehension through the Content Areas

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for teaching reading comprehension through the content areas such as science.

While integrating reading and content subjects such as science and social studies is often a goal, precise strategies for enhancing reading comprehension through content area instruction can remain elusive. In an article for the Journal of Educational Psychology, a group of researchers from Columbia Teacher’s College discuss specific ways to do just that.

To get the most out of this week’s topic, watch the short video on this page, then click below to access the rest of this week’s materials and share this page with your colleagues: