Volume 1, Issue 30 – A New Key to Reading Comprehension

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing a new key to helping students, especially struggling readers, with their reading comprehension.

It’s a truism in education that students who struggle to read by the end of third grade have an increasingly difficult time catching up. In a new article for the Journal of Educational Psychology, a group of researchers conducted a 3-year study that shed light on a key aspect of reading comprehension: understanding new words that are derived from other words.

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