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Cognitive skills are the brain’s essential tools for learning — the core skills it uses to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and pay attention. Working together, your cognitive skills take incoming information and move it into the bank of knowledge you use every day at school, at work, and in life. These core skills are ...

Which Cognitive Skills Affect Reading Comprehension? Reading is made of two main skills – reading the individual words and understanding the message the words convey. Successful reading comprehension requires students to be able to complete both halves of the task, which takes multiple cognitive skills.  To successfully read individual words, students need to have strong ...

Options for reading help are numerous and diverse. There are speed reading courses, computer-assisted reading systems, and memory reading plans. There are phonics games, whole word reading methods, traditional classroom and tutor-based reading curricula. Each of these reading systems presume that students already have basic cognitive skills in place to process sounds and associate them ...

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