Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies: A Practical Classroom Guide

Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies is a step-by-step guide based on the latest reading comprehension research and is the result of Sheena’s learning journey into research-based practice and her experiences teaching in a real classroom.
This book includes information on how to introduce and teach strategies and how they fit into your literacy programme. Each strategy has its own chapter, with:
- an explanation of the strategy and how it supports comprehension
- the language we use when using a strategy
- guided and independent student activities that support teaching the strategy.
There is also an extensive range of teacher- and student-friendly support material, including strategy starter posters, photocopiable masters, bookmarks and certificates.
Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies comes with a CD that provides all photocopy masters and support material in digital format.
CONTENTS
Part One: BACKGROUND
- Introduction
- A model for introducing and teaching reading comprehension strategies
- Creating a supportive classroom environment for strategy teaching
- Getting started: some frequently asked questions answered
- Recording the learning process
- How to use this book
Part Two: THE KEY STRATEGIES
- Activating prior knowledge
- Self-monitoring
- Predicting
- Questioning
- Making connections
- Visualising
- Inferring
- Summarising
- Synthesising
Other useful strategies
- Skimming
- Scanning
- Adjusting reading rate
- Evaluating the text
- Word attack strategies
- Fix-up strategies
- Building vocabulary knowledge
- References
- Acknowledgements
Recommended Digital Specifications
PC
Windows 7 or 8
2G RAM recommended
The latest Adobe Reader. Get the latest version of Adobe Reader here: http://get2.adobe.com/reader/
MAC
OS X.10.2-10.7.5
2G RAM recommended
The latest Adobe Reader. Get the latest version of Adobe Reader here: http://get2.adobe.com/reader/.
Date of Publication | 2009 |
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ISBN | 9781442518612 |
Subject | English |