reading comprehension

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Text complexity

raising rigor in reading
2012
This book focuses on the quantitative and qualitative factors of text complexity as well as the ways in which readers can be matched with texts and tasks. It also examines how close readings of complex texts scaffold students understanding and allow them to develop the skills necessary to read like a detective. --from publisher description.

180 days

two teachers and the quest to engage and empower adolescents
2018
"Kelly [Gallagher] and Penny [Kittle] mapped out a year of engaging literacy practices aligned to their core beliefs about what matters most. They share their insights on managing time tasks and offer teaching strategies for engaging students in both whole class and independent work"--Back cover.

Weaving through words

using the arts to teach reading comprehension strategies
2003
Explains several methods of using art to teach reading comprehension strategies in elementary grades--including developing sensory images, building and activating schema, questioning, inferring, and others--and presents several lessons and assessment tools.

The ultimate small-group reading how-to book

building comprehension through small-group instruction
2017
Explains how to set up and use small groups to help young students transition from guided reading to independent reading, using reading workshops, literature circles, reciprocal teaching, and development of writers' craft.

Connecting comprehension & technology

adapt and extend toolkit practices
2013
Provides strategies and lessons for using technology in the elementary classroom to promote reading and literacy skills.

Reading to learn for ELS

motivation practices and comprehension strategies for informational texts
A guide for teachers to teaching English to foreign speakers.
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Perfect poems with strategies for building fluency, grades 5-6

2004
Contains over fifty poems designed to help students in grades five and six develop reading fluency skills.
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Word callers

small-group and one-to-one interventions for children who "read" but don't comprehend
2010
Shares research and interventions that have helped readers with high decoding skills but low comprehension make the shift to reading with understanding, describing classroom practices designed to help students become more cognitively flexible, focusing on the Sound-Meaning Flexible Thinking Assessment and Intervention, a method that uses the included word and picture cards.
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Reading strategies

focus on comprehension
1996
Offers a theoretical perspective on the reading process and reading instruction and provides strategies for teaching reading with a focus on comprehension.
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