One effective strategy to help students develop their reading comprehension<\/a> skills is listening to someone read while they read along. Listening while reading helps with comprehension because students who struggle to understand text, are often able to understand the same information when it is spoken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, studies show that children\u2019s reading comprehension improves when the information is taught through different modes at the same time<\/a>. This is called multi-modal learning<\/a>.When you are reading and listening at the same time, the two modes are auditory \u2013 hearing the words, and visual- seeing the words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This strategy can also improve a child\u2019s vocabulary<\/a>, sight-word recognition, and fluency<\/a>), which can in-turn improve reading comprehension<\/a> even when they are not listening\/reading along to a person or an audio recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n