Key ingredients for comprehension include an understanding of how the mechanics of reading work, reasonable spoken language skills, knowledge of the world, and motivation.
Principals can help create a school culture for writing by providing curricular time, celebrating student writing through awards, and supporting school newspapers and literary clubs.
While at Brown University, Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney co-founded Eye to Eye, which started out as a public service project and is now a highly successful national mentoring movement that pairs kids who have learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD with college and high school mentors who have been similarly diagnosed.
