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  • Several of us at work read this as a book club during the winter/spring of 2007. The idea is that together we would investigate various reading strategies and share our successes and frustrations.

    Interestingly, Strategies That Work mirrors a lot of what we as a district are moving towards wi ... Continue

    Several of us at work read this as a book club during the winter/spring of 2007. The idea is that together we would investigate various reading strategies and share our successes and frustrations.

    Interestingly, Strategies That Work mirrors a lot of what we as a district are moving towards with adopting our L.E.A.D.S. model in the middle school; namely, restructuring the language program to teach strategies rather than details and incorporating other disciplines (Social Studies and Science) as we do.

    What has not been understood by many, it seems, is that teaching these reading strategies has been the hallmark of elementary school since I began teaching. Teaching reading strategies by modeling the skill is key for student understanding. With my reading groups we use two books: one I model the strategy in and in the other the students practice. This also satisfies the need/requirement to read aloud to students daily.

    Strategies That Work is not revolutionizing. It is, however, a good compilation for the teacher who may not be familiar with various comprehensions strategies and how they can be implemented into one's lessons.

    

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A child may be a great decoder, but that's only one step toward becoming a fluent reader. Reading implies thinking and understanding, and teachers can help children develop strategies for comprehension. Children need to know how to make connections and ask questions, how to visualize and infer, how to extract important ideas and to synthesize information if they are to become fluent readers. Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis show how teachers can model these strategies by thinking aloud and coding the text, lifting text onto the overhead and reasoning through it in class discussions, and bringing in their own books to model how adults use these strategies. All the while teachers give students long blocks of time to practice these strategies independently in their own reading.


Full of practical suggestions to help students think when they read, Strategies That Work gives teachers:

* more than forty K-8 strategy lessons for understanding text;
* ways to use short text, such as picture books, newspapers, magazines, and poetry to teach comprehension;
* ideas for choosing books that promote thinking and discussion;
* suggestions to better comprehend text in social studies, science, and other content areas;
* a wide range of authentic response options that promote engagement and enable students to monitor their own comprehension;
* examples of student work, illustrations, scripts of conversations, and a complete assessment interview to demons... [예스24 제공]

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