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Taberski, Sharon – Heinemann, 2010
The author cuts through the pressurized, strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere surrounding reading instruction to lay out the reading and writing workshop practices that are most effective in developing readers in the primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Oral Language, Writing Processes, Study Guides
Schoenbach, Ruth; Greenleaf, Cynthia; Murphy, Lynn – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
Published in partnership with WestEd, this significantly updated second edition of the bestselling book contains strategies for helping students in middle school through community college gain the reading independence to master subject area textbooks and other material. Features of this book include: (1) Based on the Reading Apprenticeship…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Textbooks, Reading Improvement, Reading Achievement
Kelley, Michelle J.; Clausen-Grace, Nicki – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2007
Use the teaching ideas in this rich resource to improve your students' reading comprehension. By nurturing meaningful talk about reading and learning, you can monitor and support students' metacognitive use of strategies such as predicting, making connections, questioning, visualizing, and summarizing. A comprehensive breakdown of the components…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Reading Comprehension, Metacognition, Independent Reading
Glazer, Susan Mandel – 1992
Based on the philosophy that children learn best in functional, natural settings when a desire for learning persists, this book provides classroom-tested strategies for teaching children how to monitor and improve their own comprehension as they read a variety of texts. The goal of the book is to empower students to become successful, independent…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Metacognition
Block, Cathy Collins; Rodgers, Lori L.; Johnson, Rebecca B. – Guilford Publications, 2004
Filling a crucial gap in the literature, this immensely practical volume presents innovative tools for helping K-3 students significantly increase their ability to make meaning from texts. The focus is on teaching the comprehension processes employed by expert readers, using a carefully sequenced combination of whole-class activities, specially…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Teaching Methods