Keene, Ellin Oliver

Discusses how to help students develop internal motivation and engagement in the classroom. Explores four pillars of engagement: intellectual urgency, emotional resonance, perspective bending, and the aesthetic world.

Provides strategies for assessing students' reading comprehension, including four fiction and nonfiction reading passages for each grade level from first through eighth grade and rubrics for each. Includes CD-ROM.

Presents a look at what it means to comprehend, with regard to literacy instruction, identifying dimensions and outcomes of understanding, encouraging teachers to focus on essential content and use research-based teaching and learning strategies over long periods of time, and to give students many opportunities to apply those concepts.

A guide for kindergarten through eighth grade teachers on how to help students comprehend what they read and hear.

Explains how teachers can use the latest findings of comprehension research to increase their students' reading skills.