Reading Rockets Understood

Reading Rockets is an award-winning national education project offered by WETA, the PBS station in Washington, DC. They also produce LD OnLine (about teaching kids with LD), AdLit.org (all about adolescent literacy), Colorín Colorado (for parents and teachers of English language learners), and Start With A Book (about summer learning). Explore annotated writing samples from kids in pre-K through grade 3, and see next-step suggestions for instruction. You’ll also learn about writing milestones and different purposes of writing — along with ideas for how to make room for writing during the day. The ability to recall and retell the sequence of events in a text helps students identify main narrative components, understand text structure, and summarize — all key components of comprehension. From the building blocks of reading to classroom strategies to creating inclusive classrooms — we’re here to help you understand everything you need to know to help young children grow as readers and writers.

Our rich library of classroom strategies, articles, parent tip sheets, FAQs, videos, research briefs and more provides you with research-based and best-practice information. We’re writing about best practices in reading instruction, building background knowledge, and choosing and using children’s books in the classroom and at home. Understood began with a dream to give parents everywhere access to the kind of resources usually only available to a few. Then 15 nonprofits came together to make that dream a reality. Experience it now at http://www.understood.org Helping kids connect with what they read.

Hosted by Frank McCourt, this episode highlights effective strategies to help kids understand — and care about — what they read, the ultimate goal of learning how to read. Browse our collection of books to help you continue to deepen your knowledge about reading, writing, and effective classroom instruction. You’ll also find books on reading motivation and reading aloud to children. Reading comprehension, simply stated, is the act of understanding and interpreting what we read. What happens in our students’ brains as they read is anything but simple! Skilled reading depends on a wide range of abilities — everything from concrete, masterable skills like decoding to complex, hard-to-pin-down thinking skills like making inferences.

Why is it that reading comes more easily to some children than others? What makes a skilled reader? Reading researchers have described skilled reading in different ways (Duke, Pearson, Strachan & Billman, 2009; Sedita, 2006; National Reading Panel, 2000), but there are abilities and behaviors that most skilled readers seem to have... Comprehension “strategies” are behaviors that researchers have consistently observed in skilled readers. We explicitly teach these behaviors so that all of our students can benefit from them. Strategic readers understand what they read, but their comprehension doesn’t stop there.

They also notice and reflect on their own reading. By teaching comprehension strategies, we help our students to be aware of their own thinking — to be metacognitive — as they read. We tap into students’ prior knowledge by asking questions like, “What do you know about jellyfish?” And there’s nothing better than seeing the excitement on the face of a first-grade expert who raises his... If we read aloud a story that starts, “She was so excited to get to school that she practically jumped out of bed,” and ask the class, “What time of day is it in... During the summer, kids usually don’t get as much reading practice as they get in school. But with fun books (or alternatives to books), kids might be more motivated to read over the summer.

Here are some ideas. Find more great summer reads. Visit Start with a Book, a book-based summer learning initiative of Understood founding partner Reading Rockets. Experience firsthand the daily challenges of kids with ADHD, dyslexia, and dyscalculia. See differently, so you can act differently. What parts of our brain light up when we read?

How does the brain of a child with dyslexia work differently? Our expert walks us through dyslexia and the brain. In this video from Understood, Guinevere Eden, PhD, explains which parts of our brain we use when we read, how our brains change when we learn to read, and the difference that a successful... She also highlights what people with dyslexia can do better than their peers. Keep in mind, that kids with thinking and learning differences can thrive and have their own strengths. Copyright © 2019 Understood for All, Inc.

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