How to boost reading comprehension
This article discusses how reading comprehension is about vocabulary and cultural literacy. People develop back ground knowledge and learn about new words through their experiences. For students that live in low income areas it is even more vital that they have access to a broad range of topics to boost their vocabulary. This can be through using resources that teach social studies and providing a variety of books and allowing students to choose what they read. Other subjects such as science and art could be useful but only if they are text -based and provide a rich vocabulary. In primary school there is usually an " emphasis on “doing” science and art—hands-on, and project-based—as opposed to reading about them. Social studies instruction is likely to be more text-based and to draw broadly from the full range of human experience, exposing children to other lands and cultures, and contributing rich vocabulary and background knowledge, which are the wellspring of language pro...
