The overall goal of learning about text structure is to get your students to have a better mental representation and organization of the information they read, hear, or see. This will make skills like summarizing or retell much easier. There are 5 main text structures that I teach to my students: These 5 text structures […]

Reading comprehension is complicated and can take a lot of focused intervention to support our students with learning disabilities! But what kind of texts should we use for reading comprehension? Are there benefits to using non-fiction vs. fiction stories? Does starting with narratives help later on with expositories? First of all, the things we are […]

I’m not really targeting text structure… should I be? Reading comprehension strategies are essential for our students! Language impairments affect our students’ abilities to understand and answer reading comprehension questions. How can we give them the skills to succeed in school? We can read a passage and ask comprehension questions all day long, basically drilling […]