This is a treasure! As a reader, you're armed with these strategies, but this user-friendly, practical resource translates them so you can equip your children, too. Each strategy is explained using a well-known story. Then, use the book suggestion list to practice strategies with your child. The hefty appendix provides reproducible student response sheets to practice strategies on books of your choice. The 12 crucial reading comprehension tools include schema (linking learning to current knowledge), predicting, visualizing, characterizing, retelling, questioning, determining importance, inferring, summarizing, clarifying, determining theme, and synthesizing. You'll also find a list of pre-reading activities, techniques for nonfiction, and ways to encourage your child to stay on the reading road. 75 pgs.
"I know I should read more, but I'm so busy, it takes time to read, and so much of what I try to read doesn't really make that much sense to me …" Those can be the words of a third grader or, just as easily, the words of an adult. In our hurry-up world of bits and bytes, and the need for instant gratification, the sad and simple truth is that people don't read as much as they used to and, more tragic, they understand what they read far less than in the past.
In this practical, hands-on Guide, the author, a Master Teacher with more than thirty-five years of practical success teaching both children and adults of all ages, shares her Ideas on teaching reading comprehension strategies! The underlying message she delivers is: Comprehensive Strategies are important because Reading is an Active, not a Passive, Process.
Reading can seem incredibly complicated. It involves not only making sense of the squiggles on a page – deciphering the alphabetic code and figuring out the words, but reading also entails giving meaning to, understanding, and thereby enjoying what we read.
Reading comprehension is absolutely critical to communication, whether it involves a doctor healing a patient, a lawyer presenting an argument in court, an astronaut needing to know how to repair a malfunction when he is thousands of miles above the earth, or, most important, enriching and widening the scope of your life! In fact, you cannot think of one area of learning or practice where understanding what you read is not essential.
The more you understand what you read, the less of a drudgery and the more of a joy it becomes. Reading is the key that unlocks the door to the universe.
Get ready to start a great adventure – and to grab hold of the key that will unlock the door to your universe!
| Product Format: | Paperback |
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| Brand: | Pangaea Publishing Group |
| Author: | Lorraine Gerstl |
| Grade: | AD |
| ISBN: | 9781950134267 |
| Length in Inches: | 10 |
| Width in Inches: | 8 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.25 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.5 |
