Building Comprehension Through Scaffolded Reading
From Scaffolded Writing to Scaffolded Reading In my last post, I focused on scaffolded writing, emphasizing the importance of treating writing as a skill that must be explicitly taught, modeled, practiced, and gradually released. The same logic applies to reading and comprehension. If students cannot independently make sense of what they read, asking them to produce strong writing is premature. Reading is not a passive activity. Readers must have a set of skills that must be developed intentionally to understand what is being conveyed in the text. This post zooms i