Describes strategies teachers can use to promote reading comprehension in students from kindergarten through eighth grade; and includes examples of student work, illustrations, and other reference tools.
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.
connecting students and books for successful reading experiences
Jobe, Ron
1999
Considers why children do or do not read; categorizes these readers according to their own views of themselves; assesses the influences on these children from internal and external forces; presents a range of resources that can be used with reluctant readers; and offers numerous topics of interest identified by reluctant readers.
solving the mysteries of reading : a teacher's guide
Goodman, Debra
1999
Explains to teachers of grades 3-8 how to start a Reading Detective Club, which teaches reading strategies through special mystery cases that students are asked to solve. Includes thirteen reproducible pages and case analyses for teachers.
A girl named Magnificent Mind, who has trouble with reading comprehension, visits a fantasy land called Intelligence Avenue and meets the Smart Parts, who teach her strategies for understanding what she's reading.
