Learn what comprehension is and how to teach it. This revised and expanded edition offers twenty new comprehension lessons, a new section on applying comprehension strategies across the curriculum, and an updated list of recommended fiction, nonfiction, short texts, children’s magazines, and websites.
Contents
List of Strategy Lessons
Foreword by Donald Graves
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Second Edition
Part I: The Foundation of Meaning
Chapter 1: Reading Is Thinking
Chapter 2: Reading Is Strategic
Chapter 3: Effective Comprehension Instruction: Teaching, Tone, and Assessment
Chapter 4: Tools for Active Literacy: The Nuts and Bolts of Comprehension Instruction
Chapter 5: Text Matters: Choice Makes a Difference
Part II: Strategy Lessons
Chapter 6: Monitoring Comprehension: The Inner Conversation
Chapter 7: Activating and Connecting to Background Knowledge: A Bridge from the New to the Known
Chapter 8: Questioning: The Strategy That Propels Readers Forward
Chapter 9: Visualizing and Inferring: Making What's Implicit Explicit
Chapter 10: Determining Importance in Text: The Nonfiction Connection
Chapter 11: Summarizing and Synthesizing Information: The Evolution of Thought
Part III: Comprehension Across the Curriculum
Chapter 12: Content Literacy: Reading for Understanding in Social Studies and Science
Chapter 13: Topic Studies: A Framework for Research and Exploration
Chapter 14: Reading to Understand Textbooks
Chapter 15: The Genre of Test Reading
Afterword
Part IV: Resources That Support Strategy Instruction
Appendix B: Magazines, Newspapers, and Websites
Appendix C: Professional Journals for Selection of Children's Books
Appendix D: Assessment Interview with Fourth Graders
Appendix E: Anchor Charts for the Comprehension Strategies
References: Children's Books
References: Professional References and Adult Resources
Index
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