reading comprehension

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.

"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.

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.

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.

Provides strategies and lessons for using technology in the elementary classroom to promote reading and literacy skills.

A guide for teachers to teaching English to foreign speakers.

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

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.

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