reading comprehension

Build reading and writing skills: Prepare students for state tests.

Presents a model for teaching reading comprehension to young children, providing examples from the author's classroom and discussing inference, question asking, determination of importance, mental images, children's book clubs, and other strategies and activities.

A collection of thirty detailed lessons and comprehension strategies for preparing students to become better readers.

Examines how comic books and graphic novels can be worked into traditional elementary school curriculums as resources for improving reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency instruction.

A guide to helping children fully understand texts that explains how teachers can make the comprehension process achievable, accessible, and incremental by creating links between the concrete and the abstract through writing, discussion, song, art, and movement.

Identifies the elements of an effective reading lesson, and presents strategies teachers may use to help secondary students read and understand challenging fiction and nonfiction books.

Presents over 130 strategies for improving reading comprehension, focusing on a method of reading, reflection, and retelling, and includes ninety reproducible worksheets.

Presents second-grade lessons and activities to use in conjunction with fifty books such as Jan Brett's "Town Mouse, Country Mouse" and Judi Barrett's "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," grouped by pedagogical theme; includes reproducibles; and shows several mini-lessons in action.

Presents lessons for first grade students based on fifty favorite picture books, each with related activities designed to improve skills in word recognition, vocabulary, number sense, and comprehension; grouped by theme.

Introduces the think-aloud technique for improving intermediate, middle, and high school students' reading comprehension, and presents classroom scenarios, lessons, activities, and sample student work.