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How to teach sentence comprehension – with Nancy Hennessy

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TRT Podcast #163: How to teach sentence comprehension – with Nancy Hennessy

When our students struggle with comprehension, it may be that we need to go all the way back to the sentence level. In this episode, Nancy Hennessy discusses many different ways that teachers can help improve students’ sentence comprehension. You may want to take notes! 

 

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Books by Nancy Hennessy

  • The Reading Comprehension Blueprint
  • The Reading Comprehension Blueprint Activity Book (with Julia Salamone)

Presentations by Nancy Hennessy on YouTube

  • Constructing the Comprehension House
  • Sound to Syntax
  • Meeting the Challenges of Comprehension Instruction
  • Inference: More Than Filling in the Gaps
  • Weaving the Rope: The Strands of Skilled Reading

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