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Posted January 22, 2012
Great book for educators at any level. Was able to take strategies and suggestions from the book right into my classroom.
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Posted January 21, 2007
totally useful, great strategies to work in class with any age range students
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Posted June 12, 2003
I have a hard time motivating my middle school students, but this book has motivated me to take a different approach with them. Although it encompasses the same comprehension strategies that many other books do, this book actually APPLIED strategies to example lessons. I am excited to teach these strategies in my classroom this fall. Great book!
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Posted February 2, 2013
Purchased for a reading class and will be adding to my permanent collection! A ton of "how to" here. So, if you're a teacher or teacher in training, this is one of those "great ones" to add to your resources. Comprehension -- we all could use a lesson in it!!
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Posted May 14, 2011
Make this available on the nook. It's available on the kindle.
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Posted April 13, 2003
English teachers often struggle with the Reading component of our curriculum more than we do with the Writing component. That is because there are often very well defined and structured examples of writing lessons readily available for us. Moreover, most writing can be placed into two clear categories: Expository and Creative. Finally, there are at our disposal innumerable references on style. In other words, most people in our country follow the basic rules of writing, and that¿s, more often than not, all that we are expected to teach. Reading, on the other hand, has been a very nebulous art to teach at best. In any given story, the plot is always up for interpretation by individual students, where exactly the climax is always seems a point of contention, and no one student will glean the same ¿theme,¿ or meaning from the text as another. And informational text, well, that¿s a struggle all in its own. How on earth do we make students care about another culture, another time period, or another discipline? Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis answer that question quite effectively in Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding. This is more of a roadmap than a book, as it outlines in a very organized fashion seven very logical strategies that are user friendly to all young and young adult readers. Harvey and Goudvis identify the following strategies that strong readers use to understand reading material: making connections, questioning, visualizing, predicting, making inferences, and synthesizing. Using Post-It notes and response journals, students utilize the above strategies to ¿have a conversation¿ with the reading material, thereby learning it more readily. The beauty of these strategies is that teachers no longer have to teach reading material in a cookie cutter fashion, nor do students need to learn an adult¿s interpretation of a piece of literature alone. Using the tools in this book, teachers can allow students to connect to any types of reading material, whether it be fiction or nonfiction, through their own personal lived experience. Teachers can evaluate students¿ comprehension through individual responses and avoid stifling students with monotony and sameness. I highly recommend Strategies that Work to the teacher who is not afraid to teach the art of reading comprehension in a progressive, non-restrictive fashion.
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Posted November 21, 2000
Strategies That Work will doubtless be a ready-reference book in my collection--one that stays near the front of the bookshelf and doesn't have a chance to gather dust. As I read it, I constantly thought about how the strategies that are outlined in the book (more than 40 of them) will work in my classroom. Though I am not currently teaching, I relied on my experiences in the classroom countless times as I imagined how well the ideas and suggestions would have worked with former students and will work with future ones. Harvey and Goudvis candidly explain their own experiences in the classroom and convincingly emphasize the need for more explicit strategy instruction in K-8 curriculum. After focusing on 'The Foundation of Meaning' in part one, describing strategic thinking and reading as well as the types of books to use for teaching such strategies, the authors go through strategy by strategy, explaining different lessons to use with each. The strategies emphasized include making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, determining importance in text, and synthesizing information. There is a nice balance of skill levels and genres of text, as well as notes about how to assess comprehension--useful information for any teacher. The third section of the book is a collection of appendixes that make the addition of this book to your collection even more imperative. Here you will find lists of books and author sets that are particularly complimentary to the strategies previously depicted. In addition, you will find books classified by content area, adult text sets, magazines and newspapers for children and young adults, and more. With the current debate raging about which is the one best method for teaching decoding, the importance of teaching children to be proficient at comprehending what they read is often set on the back burner. This book offers a welcome answer to that need.
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Overview
Since its publication in 2000, Strategies That Work has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the scope of the book and exploring the central role that activating background knowledge plays in understanding. Another major addition is the inclusion of a section on content literacy which describes how to apply comprehension strategies flexibly across the curriculum. The new edition is organized around four sections:
Part I highlights what comprehension is and how to teach it, including the principles that guide practice, a review of recent research, and a new section on assessment. A new chapter, Tools for Active Literacy: The Nuts and Bolts of Comprehension Instruction, describes ways to engage students in purposeful talk through interactive read alouds, guided discussion and written response.
Part II contains lessons and practices for teaching comprehension. A new first chapter emphasizes the importance of teaching students to monitor their understanding before focusing on specific strategies. Five lessons on monitoring provide a sound basis for launching comprehension instruction. At the end of each strategy chapter, the authors outline learning goals and ways to assess students' thinking, sharing examples of student work, and offering suggestions for differentiating instruction.
Part III, Comprehension Across the Curriculum is new. Comprehension strategies are essential for content-area reading, where information can be challenging, and presented in unfamiliar formats. This section includes chapters on social studies and science reading, topic study research, textbook reading and the genre of test reading.
Part IV shows that kids need books they can sink their teeth into and the updated appendix section recommends a rich diet of fiction and nonfiction, short text, kid's magazines, websites and journals that will assist teachers as they plan and design comprehension instruction
Through its focus on instruction that is responsive to kids' interests and learning needs, the first edition of Strategies That Work helped transform comprehension instruction for teachers across the country. For them, this new edition will be a welcome extension of that work. Those coming to it for the first time will find a current and essential resource. When readers use these strategies, they enjoy a more complete, thoughtful reading experience. Engagement is the goal. When kids are engaged in their reading they enhance their understanding, acquire knowledge, and learn from and remember what they read. And best yet, they will want to read more!
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Table of Contents
List of Strategy Lessons vii
Foreword Donald Graves xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction to the Second Edition 1
The Foundation of Meaning
Reading Is Thinking 11
Reading Is Strategic 22
Effective Comprehension Instruction: Teaching, Tone, and Assessment 30
Tools for Active Literacy: The Nuts and Bolts of Comprehension Instruction 44
Text Matters: Choice Makes a Difference 60
Strategy Lessons
Monitoring Comprehension: The Inner Conversation 77
Activating and Connecting to Background Knowledge: A Bridge from the New to the Known 91
Questioning: The Strategy That Propels Readers Forward 109
Visualizing and Inferring: Making What's Implicit Explicit 130
Determining Importance in Text: The Nonfiction Connection 155
Summarizing and Synthesizing Information: The Evolution of Thought 179
Comprehension Across the Curriculum
Content Literacy: Reading for Understanding in Social Studies and Science 205
Topic Studies: A Framework for Research and Exploration 219
Reading to Understand Textbooks 233
The Genre of Test Reading 239
Afterword 253
Resources That Support Strategy Instruction
Great Books for Teaching Content in History, Social Studies, Science, Music, Art, and Literacy 257
Magazines, Newspapers, and Websites 291
Professional Journals for Selection of Children's Books 295
Assessment Interview with Fourth Graders 299
Anchor Charts for the Comprehension Strategies 305
References: Children's Books 313
References: Professional References and Adult Resources 327
Index 333