Introduction
Middle school students who are struggling readers are generally able to recognize and pronounce words accurately, but have difficulty comprehending what they read. Their challenge is that by middle school, they encounter more texts in the content-area disciplines and must refine their use of comprehension strategies to learn content.
This professional development lesson presents research about the needs of middle school learners when reading and comprehending nonfiction text. It shows how this research can be put into practice using examples from the self-paced lessons in the Inspiring Middle School Literacy Collection.
