Read to Achieve: Comprehending Content Area Text, Content Reader


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In Read to Achieve: Comprehending Content Area Text, students work daily with content examples that reflect the structure and layout of popular science and social studies texts. The level of direct teacher guidance provided to the students begins strong and is gradually phased out as students demonstrate the ability to independently select and apply appropriate comprehension strategies for the content they are reading. In the final units of this module students stop using the example text provided in the Content Reader and begin working with their actual science and social studies textbooks!




Read to Achieve: Comprehending Content Area Text, Workbook


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Read to Achieve Comprehending Content-Area Text Workbook In Comprehending Content-Area Text Workbook, students will read material that replicates the content, style, and structure of science and social studies textbooks. Essential tools and strategies help teachers prepare students to effectively read content-area text, take notes, and learn real world study skills. All skills and strategies are practiced in an instructional sequence that progresses from strong teacher support to student independence. Sharing and comparing encourages student collaboration and builds motivation to complete program activities. Students spend their time immersed in comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency building activities Word learning strategies prepare student to encounter the wide range of vocabulary words presented in content-area text.




Read to Achieve


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The Reading Comprehension Blueprint


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"The Reading Comprehension Blueprint: Helping Students Make Meaning from Text provides readers with a deeper understanding of reading comprehension and recommendations for developing evidence-based instruction. This organizational framework, aligned with the language comprehension strands of Scarborough's Reading Rope, prompts educators to ask themselves critical questions about vocabulary, syntax and sentence comprehension, text structures, students' background knowledge, levels of understanding, and inference. Sample classroom activities, a unit plan, sample lesson plans, and other resources provide valuable models and tools to use for designing and delivering high-quality instruction"--




Corrective Reading 2008 Comprehension C Additional Teachers Guide


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Comprehension C helps teachers bridge the gap between basic reasoningand critical thinking. With these skills, students can evaluate and utilizeinformational resources on their own.







Read to Achieve: Comprehending Narrative Text, Workbook


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In Read to Achieve: Comprehending Narrative Text, students work daily to develop comprehension strategies appropriate for fictional and non-fictional texts. Examples using selections of authentic non-fiction trade books are provided in the Anthology. In later units instruction is based around examples taken from Gary Paulsen's award-winning novel Hatchet, as students read and work with the entire text. In the final units of this module the teacher selects a text of their own choosing that will be used for daily examples and classroom work.







Teaching Through Text


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Rave Reviews for the Fourth Edition of "Teaching Through Text": "The major strengths of this text are its elegant conceptual frame (first the global lesson planning frameworks and then the before-during-after reading strategies) and its conscious use of connections to technology." "Sharon Walpole, University of Delaware" "Due to the extra care the authors took to make "Teaching Through Text" a 'real-life example' of a reader-friendly textbook, the text itself becomes a more accessible, and therefore more rewarding text from which to learn about content area literacy instruction." "Laura Jones, Nazareth College of Rochester" "It is an easy text to read and use. Summaries are brief and provide a nice closure to the chapters. Content information is easily located and dissected for class discussion and presentation." "Isaac Willis Larison, Xavier University" About the Fourth Edition: Bringing all the research up-to-date, this Fourth Edition of "Teaching Through Text" provides a broad range of techniques to enhance students' literacy development and learning across the curriculum. Authored by two of the most respected literacy researchers, this text focuses on describing, illustrating, and applying both teacher-directed and student-centered strategies for content area literacy in middle and secondary grades. What's New on the Fourth Edition? Additional instructional techniques are presented, aligned with the Report of the National Reading Panel The treatment of diversity is more prominent and has been expanded to include the topic of culturally responsive teaching A detailed section on content area read-alouds has been added New, research-based ideas for motivating students to read are presented The topic of reciprocal teaching has been given major status Other Allyn & Bacon Titles by Michael McKenna and Richard Robinson: "Issues and Trends in Literacy Education: 3/e" (c) 2004 ISBN: 0205361102 "Readings in Reading Instruction: Its History, Theory, and Development: 1/e" (c) 2005 ISBN: 0205410588 by Richard Robinson