Collaborative strategies for teaching reading comprehension : maximizing your impact / Judi Moreillon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreillon, Judi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading comprehension--Study and teaching.

Reading comprehension.

Lesson planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : American Library Association, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Research shows that collaboration between classroom teachers and teacher-librarians improves overall effectiveness in increasing student's reading comprehension. Drawing on cutting edge research in instructional strategies, Moreillon, a veteran teacher-librarian, offers a clear, rigorous roadmap to the task of teaching reading comprehension in a proven collaborative process.

Contents:

Collaborative teaching in the age of accountability

Maximizing your impact

Reading comprehension strategy one: activating or building background knowledge

Reading comprehension strategy two: using sensory images

Reading comprehension strategy three: questioning

Reading comprehension strategy four: making predictions and inferences

Reading comprehension strategy five: determining main ideas

Reading comprehension strategy six: using fix-up options

Reading comprehension strategy seven: synthesizing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-161) and index.

ISBN:

1-4416-1882-1

OCLC:

923563912