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When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12

When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12

by G. Kylene Beers

For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced abruptly in 1979 when she began teaching. That year, she discovered that some of the students in her seventh-grade language arts classes could pronounce all the words, but couldn't make any sense of the text.

I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers

I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers

by Cris Tovani

I Read It, but I Don't Get It is a practical, engaging account of how teachers can help adolescents develop new reading comprehension skills. Cris Tovani is an accomplished teacher and staff developer who writes with verve and humor about the challenges of working with students at all levels of achievement—from those who have mastered the art of "fake reading" to college-bound juniors and seniors who struggle... (more)

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding

by Stephanie Harvey

Since its publication in 2000, Strategies That Work has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the scope of the book and exploring the central role that activating... (more)

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8

by Stephanie Harvey

When we open the gates to nonfiction inquiry, we open our thinking and expect the unexpected, making reading discoveries, research discoveries, and writing discoveries on our way. Nonfiction Matters offers teachers the tools to help students explore nonfiction and dig deep to reach more complete understanding of the real world and report these insights in a compelling manner. Stephanie Harvey shows how students... (more)

Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12

Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12

by Kelly Gallagher

Do your students often struggle with difficult novels and other challenging texts? Do they think one reading of a work is more than enough? Do they primarily comprehend at a surface-level, and are they frequently unwilling or unable to discover the deeper meaning found in multi-layered works? Do you feel that you are doing more work teaching the novel than they are reading it? Building on twenty years of teaching... (more)

Teaching for Deep Comprehension: A Reading Workshop Approach

Teaching for Deep Comprehension: A Reading Workshop Approach

by Linda J. Dorn

Linda Dorn and Carla Soffos describe the process of comprehension as a reflection of the mind—a window into the reader's thoughts. In Teaching for Deep Comprehension they discuss comprehension from a socio-cognitive perspective — specifically, how teachers can use the social context of reading workshop to promote deep comprehension. The book is framed around three guiding questions: Can comprehension be taught? ... (more)

Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop

Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop

by Susan Zimmermann, Ellin Oliver Keene

How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level?

Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12

Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12

by Janet Allen

Do you spend hours creating word lists and weekly vocabulary tests only to find that your students have "forgotten" the words by the following week? Janet Allen and her students were frustrated with the same problem. Words, Words, Words describes the research that changed the way she and many other teachers teach vocabulary. It offers educators practical, research-based solutions for helping students fall into... (more)

Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12

Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12

by Cris Tovani

“Do I really have to teach reading?” This is the question many teachers of adolescents are asking, wondering how they can possibly add a new element to an already overloaded curriculum. And most are finding that the answer is “yes.” If they want their students to learn complex new concepts in different disciplines, they often have to help their students become better readers. Building on the experiences gained in... (more)

Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12

Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12

by Janet Allen

Do you spend your days working with students who struggle to comprehend reading in literacy and content classes? Are you looking for a way to establish comprehensive literacy instruction in your school or classroom so all students receive support in becoming competent and confident readers? In Yellow Brick Roads, Janet Allen offers research-based methods for helping teachers move toward these goals. This book... (more)

Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading

Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading

by Tanny McGregor

Deepen your understanding of Comprehension Connections. Listen to Tanny McGregor's three Webinars, archived here for use with professional learning groups of any size: Click here to access the webinars now http://www.heinemann.com/mcgregorwebinar/ Inferring, questioning, determining importance. It's not easy to explain these abstract reading strategies to elementary readers, yet knowing how they work and... (more)

Teaching Reading in High School English Classes

Teaching Reading in High School English Classes

by Bonnie O. Ericson

Envisioning Literature: Literary Understanding and Literature Instruction (Language and Literacy Series (Teachers College Pr))

Envisioning Literature: Literary Understanding and Literature Instruction (Language and Literacy Series (Teachers College Pr))

by Judith A. Langer

This work proposes new ways to think about literature instruction and its contribution to schooling. It focuses on the creation in the classroom of a literate community and the development of a reader-based pedagogy for all students.

On the Same Page: Shared Reading Beyond the Primary Grades

On the Same Page: Shared Reading Beyond the Primary Grades

by Janet Allen

Maya Angelou says, "Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." On the Same Page celebrates the use of our voices in shared reading with students to help them gain deeper understanding of the texts we read. If you have enjoyed the increased engagement and motivation that accompany reading with your students and wondered how to extend... (more)

Teaching reading in social studies, science, and math

Teaching reading in social studies, science, and math

by Laura Robb

Practical Ways to Weave Comprehension Strategies Into Your Content Area Teaching New From Laura Robb! Help students read and engage with textbooks, and navigate the special demands of any non-fiction text structure. In this highly practical book, master teacher Laura Robb shares dozens of strategy lessons to use before, during, and after reading.

That Workshop Book: New Systems and Structures for Classrooms That Read, Write, and Think

That Workshop Book: New Systems and Structures for Classrooms That Read, Write, and Think

by Samantha Bennett

For teachers who feel alone with the challenges they face, this is the book for you. For instructional coaches who are stuck and unsure where to lead, this book will show the way. It will help you work through the tricky parts, negotiate the roadblocks and think through to the future. - Cris Tovani Twenty-five years after Donald Graves popularized workshop teaching, the concept is widely implemented... (more)

Revisit, Reflect, Retell, Updated Edition: Time-Tested Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension

Revisit, Reflect, Retell, Updated Edition: Time-Tested Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension

by Linda Hoyt

I cannot imagine being a teacher and not having a resource like this at my fingertips. So my advice to fellow teachers is to get the book and get busy engaging your students in ways you never thought possible. - P. David Pearson University of California, Berkeley This updated edition of Revisit, Reflect, Retell incorporates the newest approaches to enhancing students' higher- level cognitive skills... (more)

Toolkit Texts: Grades 2-3: Short Nonfiction for Guided and Independent Practice (Comprehension Toolkit)

Toolkit Texts: Grades 2-3: Short Nonfiction for Guided and Independent Practice (Comprehension Toolkit)

by Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis

In response to the overwhelming demand for more high-quality, age-appropriate nonfiction texts, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have developed the three volume series Toolkit Texts: Short Nonfiction for Guided and Independent Practice. With articles personally selected and edited by Harvey and Goudvis, these volumes are designed to provide supplementary texts that are precisely matched to the strategies... (more)

Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a cultural invention

Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a cultural invention

by Stanislas Deheane

A renowned cognitive neuroscientistÂ’s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires reading How can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the Â“reading paradoxÂ”: Our cortex is the product of millions of... (more)

Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades

Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades

by Debbie Miller

If you have ever wondered how to teach comprehension strategies to primary-age children, read on. First, imagine a primary-grade classroom where all the children are engaged and motivated; where the buzz of excited, emerging readers fills the air; where simultaneously words are sounded out and connections are made between the books of their choice and the experiences of their lives. Then, open these pages. ... (more)

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by G. Kylene Beers

by Cris Tovani

by Stephanie Harvey

by Stephanie Harvey

by Kelly Gallagher

by Linda J. Dorn

by Susan Zimmermann, Ellin Oliver Keene

by Janet Allen

by Cris Tovani

by Janet Allen

by Tanny McGregor

by Bonnie O. Ericson

by Judith A. Langer

by Janet Allen

by Laura Robb

by Samantha Bennett

by Linda Hoyt

by Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis

by Stanislas Deheane

by Debbie Miller