reading comprehension

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reading comprehension

Main ideas & summarizing

2006
Contains reproducible worksheets that feature test-formatted practice questions help students develop the skills of finding main ideas and summarizing.

Context clues & figurative language

2006
Presents thirty-five reading passages designed to help students in grades four through eight master the critical reading-comprehension skills needed to succeed on tests.

Inferences & drawing conclusions

2006
Presents thirty-five reading passages designed to help students in grades four through eight improve their critical reading-comprehension skills.

25 fun and fabulous literature response activities and rubrics

2002
Describes twenty-five activities that may be used to help students in grades four through eight identify and understand the literary elements in fiction and nonfiction books, including poetry, each with a list of suggested short stories that can be used to model the activity.

Short reading passages & graphic organizers to build comprehension, grades 6-8

2001
Contains forty short passages paired with graphic organizers designed to build reading comprehension skills in students in grades six through eight.

Reading strategies and practices

a compendium
2000
A compendium of strategies and practices for teachers that describes various practices that can be used to improve classroom literacy and students' reading skills.

Quick & creative reading response activities

2003
Contains more than sixty make-and-learn activities designed to help students in grades two through four respond meaningfully to what they read.

Pairing fiction & nonfiction

2006
Describes how to match fiction with non-fiction on the same topic in order to develop students' comprehension in the subject area; and contains fifteen strategy lessons.

Comprehension shouldn't be silent

from strategy instruction to student independence
2007
Offers a wide range of strategies designed to help teachers improve their student reading comprehension and monitor and support students' utilization of various strategies, including predicting, making connections, questioning, visualizing, and summarizing.

Proust and the squid

the story and science of the reading brain
2007
A developmental psychologist evaluates the ways in which reading and writing have transformed the human brain, in an anecdotal study that reveals the significant changes in evolutionary brain physiology throughout history.

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