Language & Literacy Development Series:Reading to Learn:Socialization, Language & Deep Comprehension

Harvard HGSE

In today's world, students need to be equipped with the skills that allow them to update their knowledge independently in order to continue to be efficient learners, workers, and critical members of rapidly changing societies. Supporting students to become skilled comprehenders of texts--whether oral, written, or digital texts-- constitutes a central instructional goal in the larger enterprise of preparing lifelong independent learners. Beyond word reading ability, socio-cognitive skills,…