Aie College Reading

HOW DOES BRAIN-COMPATIBLE LEARNING HELP CREATE EXPERT READERS? How does telling students to read and answer questions help them read? How does this actually make better readers? Teaching this way can help students with good decoding (reading fluency) skills think better and get more out of the reading, but does it help a struggling reader tackle difficult reading? Much of what we teach when we teach reading skills are "thinking skills." But there is more to reading than just thinking. Many college developmental students are still struggling with reading skills involving basic decoding. They have problems with phonology and orthography-figuring out vocabulary and remembering sight words. They have underlying deficits in attention and working memory that appear as reading deficits. College Reading: The Science and Strategies of Expert Readers bridges brain research and learning theory to offer reading strategies that are practical, interesting, and empirically grounded. College Reading: The Science and Strategies of Expert Readers approaches reading not only from a thinking skills perspective but also from a knowledge of how one thinks, learns, and reads. The bridge from the scientific research to the class- room is built on expertise in both science and education. The translation from research to reading strategies that help struggling learners is clear, concise, and in layperson's terms. By explaining the brain science of reading, Science and Strategies teaches students how to read with the knowledge that they can change their brain into a more effective reading brain. The benefits of teaching with an awareness of brain research are many. shows that when students learn that their brain is malleable-that it changes as a result of learning-their achievement rises. Science and Strategies is to increase student achievement by providing them with this important information immediately.