books about: comprehension     books:       Guiding Readers and Writers: Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy23 reviews Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell Heinemann, 2001 Must have resource Every teacher who teaches grades 3-6 should own this book. It has practical mini-lessons, rationale for teaching comprehension strategies and additional resources. If you don't already own it, you should get your hands on a copy.             Daily Word Ladders: Grades 2-38 reviews Timothy Rasinski Teaching Resources, 2005 fun word activities build vocabulary This is a solid book for building elementary vocabulary. It has 100 reproducible word study lessons that help kids boost reading, spelling and phonics skills independently. Among the many activities, kids read clues on each rung, then change and rearrange letters to create words until they reach the top. All the while, they are boosting decoding and spelling skills, broadening vocabulary, and ...             Daily Word Ladders: Grades 4-67 reviews Timothy Rasinski Teaching Resources, 2005 Great Resource Word Ladders is a great way for students to review familiar vocabulary in a fun-filled manner. Each puzzle also has one or more challenging vocabulary word(s). My fifth grade students enjoy the ladders.             Reading With Meaning38 reviews Debbie Miller Topeka Bindery, 2002 Making Children Thoughtful Readers Is So Important Teaching young children to think and especially think about what they read is so important. Too often children read words with no idea about what they are reading. As a teacher I constantly use children's literature to teach comprehension. Two of my favorites are:Life's Little Lessons: An Inch-By-Inch Tale of Success and The Big Squeal: A Wild, True, and Twisted Tailwhich not only have fabulous ...             Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension: Role Plays, Text Structure Tableaux, Talking Statues, and ...6 reviews Jeffrey D. Wilhelm Teaching Resources, 2002 A terrific resource for all teachers! Wilhelm's book, Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension is one of the most valuable teaching resources I own. I've had phenomenal success with the hotseating and tableaux activities, only two of the terrific resources in this great book. Kids of all ages love hotseating in particular because it's so much fun. In a nutshell: one kid gets in front of the room (I drape a piece of red fabric ...             The Fluent Reader: Oral Reading Strategies for Building Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension12 reviews Timothy V. Rasinski Scholastic, Inc., 2003 The Fluent Reader The Fluent Reader is Rasinski's definitive work on the subject. It is a book that should be on every grade school teacher's shelf. The strategies developed in this book are applicable to any age or grade level. Since fluency is directly correlated with comprehension, it is imperative that children learn to read fluently as soon as they know how to decode. This book shows how to make that happen!             Revisit, Reflect, Retell: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension7 reviews Linda Hoyt Topeka Bindery, 2003 Wow! What an amazing and easy to use tool for teachers! This book contains an incredible amount of useful information and ready to use strategy sheets for students. Includes wonderful pre, during, and post reading strategies to help students with their comprehension. Also includes great student self-assessment sheets. Extremely easy to use for teachers! Highly recommended!             Rev It Up Reading6 reviews Abby Marks-Beals Short Burst Learning, 2005 A Speed Reading Program that Works! As I played the CD-ROM entitled REV IT UP READING by Abby Marks-Beale, I appreciated the fact that the information was presented in an easy-to-follow format that made the learning experience a positive one. The music and graphics proved to be very effective enhancements to the overall presentation of this accelerated reading program. I found myself intrigued by the simplicity of the learning ...             Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading9 reviews Tanny McGregor Heinemann, 2007 A "MUST READ": Tanny's enthusiasm about making comprehension "real" to students is contagious! I am an elementary teacher currently using Tanny's book to inform my small group reading instruction. It didn't take me long to realize what a goldmine of information she provides; and it all makes sense. Reading this book is what I'd imagine sitting down with the author at Starbucks to be like. She will begin your own inner conversation about the myriad ways to strengthen your students' ...             Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-129 reviews Kelly Gallagher Stenhouse Publishers, 2004 Deeper Reading Deeper Reading is one of my favorite language arts resources. As an 8th grade teacher, I am constantly looking for ways to improve reading and reading comprehension in my students. Whether you are dealing with low ability, reluctant, or gifted students, the lessons Kelly Gallagher presents lead students to "deeper reading" in fiction and nonfiction text. (My classes are especially fond of his ...             Clear Speech from the Start Audio CDs: Basic Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American ...4 reviews Judy B. Gilbert Cambridge University Press, 2001 Now ESL beginners can build clear pronunciation! Conventional wisdom in the ESL/EFL world holds that pronunciation should not be taught at the beginning level. It's just too technical, requiring complicated descriptions and explanations for which beginning students don't have the vocabulary. But if there were a way to make the material accessible? Even beginners need to communicate clearly -- intelligible speech fosters successful academic, ...             Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning5 reviews Doug Buehl International Reading Association, 2001 Buy this book This book is one of the best if you are looking to find strategies for teaching. I strongly recommend it to all teachers.             Hi-Lo Nonfiction Passages for Struggling Readers: Grades 4-5: 80 High-Interest/Low-Readability Passages With ...5 reviews Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2007 Well worth the investment! I teach students in grades 6-8 who are struggling in reading. These articles are a perfect one day lesson to teach a reading skill. The book is organized by strategy: main idea, inference, sequencing, using context clues, etc. and then by reading level with increasing difficulty to reinforce the skill and stretch the student's reading skills. I often will use the lowest readability article to ...             100 Selected Stories (Comprehension Skills; 4vct-10m)5 reviews O. Henry, Karen Duddy NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company, 1998 MASTER OF THE IRONIC TWIST! O. Henry began writing short stories as a prison inmate, and he quickly fine tuned his skills behind the bars and developed into an excellent story-teller. The distinctive characteristic of O. Henry's short stories is the ironic twist at the end, which never fails to surprise and entertain. O. Henry's suspense and trademark ironic twist ensures that readers who have a good literary taste ...             Communicating in Chinese: Student Lab Workbook: A Series of Exercises for Listening Comprehension (Far ...4 reviews Meng Yeh, Cynthia Ning Yale University Press, 1999 Communicating in just a short while... This text is well-formatted to give useful phrases for common dialogue. It has focused, short lessons that lead you through an idea and get you communicating quickly. It also includes cultural notes and some more important linguistic notes, (though it is not a heavy-duty linguistics book). It really delivers quickly with phrases you can use and understand right away. For pronunciation, ...             8th Grade Reading Comprehension Success5 reviews Elizabeth Chesla LearningExpress, LLC, 2001 8th grade reading comprehession this book is wonderful....it has helped my son allot....he is a slow reader and this book has helped him to pick important facts out of a paragraph much quicker....i would buy it again if my younger child needed the help.             MCAT Verbal Reasoning Mastery: The Complete Reading Comprehension Program (How to Turn a VR Score 6 into an ...5 reviews Charles A. Chaney IvyHall Review, 2008 it's a reading program, not just a book I agree with the above reviewer. Two chapters were my true favorite - the chapter that interviews students who got top scores on Verbal Reasoning, and the chapter where you learn how to read with visual memory. Also, the chapter that tells you what books to read for practice was golden. These alone were worth the price for me. Now I have a leg up on the curve! Actually, considering this ...             Direct Instruction Reading4 reviews Douglas Carnine Prentice Hall, 1990 Research-based how-to-teach explicit, systematic phonics Direct Instruction Reading, gives away ALL the secrets of the designers of Reading Mastery, one of the most effective reading programs available today. The text gives ALL the details necessary to teach reading successfully. The text explains how to teach explicit, systematic phonics for beginning readers and why it is necessary. The text leads the reader through a comprehensive description ...             Diary of a Man in Despair: A Masterpiece about the Comprehension of Evil (Duck Editions)5 reviews Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen Duckworth Publishing, 2000 Diary of a man among apes The title is a calumny. As his translator, Paul Rubens, points out, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen was a prophet - not in the vulgar sense of one who predicts future events, but a prophet after the fashion of Jeremiah, William Blake and Dostoyevsky: one who comments on the present from the perspective of the Most High. As such, even when his own death is imminent, Reck most certainly does not ...             Test Talk: Integrating Test Preparation into Reading Workshop5 reviews Amy H. Greene, Glennon Doyle Melton Stenhouse Publishers, 2007 Test Talk Test Talk: Integrating Test Preparation into Reading Workshop We have used this book at our school to discuss testing vocabulary. Each teacher has a set of words to work on with students. We are hoping that the suggestions in this book will help improve our instructional delivery. The book offers a lot of practical advice that educators can use. 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