Synopses & Reviews
This straightforward, easy-to-use handbook gives teachers creative yet substantive ideas and methods for increasing students' content learning by helping them become better readers. The authors explain how differentiated instruction, attention to multiple intelligences, scaffolding, constructivism, and cooperative learning methods may all be used to strengthen reading comprehension.
Each chapter of this second edition includes strategies, guidance, and examples that you can quickly apply to your own classroom: Creating a Climate to Motivate Readers: Luring the unchallenged reader, exciting the gifted reader, personalizing the classroom, and evaluating the environment Knowing and Assessing the Reader: Assessing each student's reading ability, interests, learning styles, and more Models of Reading: Providing guided reading, shared reading, a four-block format, language experiences, and read aloudsVocabulary: Incorporating strategies, visuals, context clues, and miscue analysis The Art of Decoding: Using The Phonics Dozen, syllable sense, and more Comprehension: Fostering improvement by using before, during, and after reading strategiesPlanning: Applying strategies effectively
The authors have completely revised the best-selling first edition with new strategies, updated research, expanded coverage of key areas, and more.
Synopsis
Increase understanding of content by strengthening every learner's reading skills
Featuring new strategies, updated research, expanded coverage of key topics, plus new material on English language learners, this revised edition offers substantive methods for increasing content learning by helping students become better readers. The authors explain how differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, scaffolding, and other techniques can support reading comprehension, and help teachers:
- Create the right reading environment
- Assess readers effectively
- Incorporate guided reading, shared reading, the four-block model, language experience, and read-alouds
- Teach vocabulary using methods such as visuals, context clues, and miscue analysis
- Improve comprehension before, during, and after reading
Synopsis
Featuring new strategies, current research, and differentiated teaching models, this updated edition offers substantive methods for increasing students' content learning by helping them become better readers.