Reading Comprehension Strategies that Work |
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The NRP reviewed four studies that experimentally examined how active listening during reading affects comprehension.
Listening studies were carried out on students in grade level 1, n=1; level 4, n=1; level 5, n=1; and level 6, n=1.
Active listening instructed subjects showed improvement in two studies.
Subjects improved in two studies using standardized tests.
Direct instruction on learning to listen to others (teachers or peers) who read while following in the text what is read may benefit students' comprehension in specific and in more general ways.