Strategies That Work : Teaching Comprehension for Engagement, Understanding, and Building Knowledge, Grades K-8, Paperback by Harvey, Stephanie; Goudvis, Anne, ISBN 1625310633, ISBN-13 9781625310637, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK

Harvey, a teacher and staff developer, and Goudvis, a classroom teacher, staff developer, and adjunct professor, describe comprehension strategies that teach K-8 students to become engaged, thoughtful, and independent readers. They explain foundational concepts of reading, including how reading is thinking and strategic, and the aspects of effective comprehension instruction, then provide strategy lessons for teaching and monitoring comprehension, background knowledge, questioning, visualizing and inferring, determining importance in text, and summarizing and synthesizing information, as well as teaching comprehension across the curriculum. This edition has a new chapter on building knowledge through thinking-intensive reading, with sections on trends like close reading, close listening, close viewing, text complexity, and critical thinking; a revised chapter on 21st-century reading, focusing on reading and strategies for integrating comprehension and technology and differentiating with technology; a new chapter on instructional strategies that can be used repeatedly; new and revised chapters on content literacy and inquiry-based teaching and learning; and 30 new lessons. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()