Strategies that work : teaching comprehension for understanding and engagement

Titre
Strategies that work : teaching comprehension for understanding and engagement

Stephanie. Harvey

Sommaire
Describes strategies teachers can use to promote reading comprehension in students from kindergarten through eighth grade; and includes examples of student work, illustrations, and other reference tools.

Teaching comprehension for understanding and engagement

Date de publication comme intervalle
2007

Description matérielle
xviii, 339 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Edition
2nd ed.

Table des matières
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.
 
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 for understanding in social studies and science -- Topic studies: a framework for research and exploration -- Reading to understand textbooks -- The genre of test reading.

Informations sur le programme
Comprehension

Terme de vedette-matière
Reading comprehension.
 
Reading (Elementary)
 
Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
 
Children -- Books and reading.
 
English Language-Study and Teaching (Elementary)
 
Reading.
 
Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching.
 
Reading(Elementary)
 
Thought and thinking-Study and teaching(Elementary)
 
Children-Books and reading
 
Teacher Resource
 
Language arts

Vedette secondaire auteur
Goudvis, Anne.

Accès électronique
Table of contents only

Résumé
Describes strategies teachers can use to promote reading comprehension in students from kindergarten through eighth grade; and includes examples of student work, illustrations, and other reference tools.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9781571104816

Informations de publication
Portland, Me. : Stenhouse Publishers ; Markham, Ont. : Pembroke Publishers, c2007.


BibliothèqueNuméro de rayonType de documentCode à barres du documentStatut
WestbrookTR 372.47 HARTeacher resource30197000101616Teacher Materials