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6. Use interesting stories to develop language comprehension.
The use of interesting
authentic stories to develop language comprehension is not ruled out by
this research. Only the use of these stories as reading material
for nonreaders is ruled out. Any controlled connected text, whether it
is controlled for decodability or for vocabulary, will not be able to
provide entire coherent stories in the early stages of reading acquisition.
During this early stage of reading acquisition, the children can still
benefit from stories that the teacher reads to them. These teacher-read
stories can play an important role in building the children's oral language
comprehension, which ultimately affects their reading comprehension. These
story-based activities should be structured to build comprehension skills,
not decoding skills.
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