Introduces the think-aloud technique for improving intermediate, middle, and high school students' reading comprehension, and presents classroom scenarios, lessons, activities, and sample student work.
role plays, text-structure tableaux, talking statues, and other enactment techniques that engage students with text
Wilhelm, Jeffrey D.
2012
Provides enactment techniques that help students apply their social, physical, and intellectual selves to the books they read to help improve their comprehension.
why kids need to read what they want- and why we should let them
Wilhelm, Jeffrey D.
2014
"Provides an exploration of the nature and variety of the pleasure avid adolescent readers experience through their out-of-school reading, identifies and explains the genres teen readers most enjoy--romance, vampires, dystopian fiction, and science fiction/fantasy--and explores what we can learn from teens' pleasure reading and the implications for instruction in the era of Common Core State Standards."--Provided by publisher.
teaching engaged and reflective reading with adolescents
Wilhelm, Jeffrey D.
2008
Addresses why traditional schooling, reading instruction and literary instruction deters engaged reading, and examines various methods that can be used within the classroom to benefit all students.
how to teach what really matters about character, setting, point of view and theme
Wilhelm, Jeffrey D.
2010
Offers tools and strategies for teaching literary elements to middle and high school students, covering character, theme, point of view, and setting, and including activities.
Describes a learning-centered approach to reading designed to help students of all abilities meet the demands of reading higher-level texts as they progress through school.
