Strategies that work : teaching comprehension for understanding and engagement
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| Main Authors | , |
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| Format | Book |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Portland, Me. : Markham, Ont. :
Stenhouse Publishers ; Pembroke Publishers,
c2007
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| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Obsah |
| ISBN | 9781571104816 |
| Physical Description | xviii, 339 s. : il. ; 26 cm |
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Table of Contents:
- Reading is thinking
- Reading is strategic
- Effective comprehension instruction: teaching, tone and assessment
- Tools for active literacy: the nuts and bolts of comprehension instruction
- Text matters: choice makes a difference
- Monitoring comprehension: the inner conversation
- Activating and connecting to background knowledge: a bridge from the new to the known
- Questioning: the strategy that propels readers forward
- Visualizing and inferring: making what's implicit explicit
- Determining importance in text: the nonfiction connection
- Summarizing and synthesizing information: the evolution of thought
- Content literacy: reading and understanding social studies and science
- Topic studies: a framework for research and exploration
- Reading to understand textbooks
- The genre of test reading
- Appendix A: great books for teaching content in history, social studies, science, music, art, and literacy
- Appendix B: magazines and web sites
- Appendix C: professional journals for selection of children's books
- Appendix D: assessment interview with fourth graders