Boosting Reading Skills: Will 'Common Core' Experiment Pay Off? - NewsHour
14 May 2012, 8:35 pm
AMANDA BLATTER: We're teaching comprehension strategies such as main idea, author's purpose, inferencing, cause and effect. JOHN MERROW: In balanced literacy, comprehension is a skill, something to be practiced, like a jump-shot or dance steps. JOHN MERROW ...