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Loading... Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12by Kelly Gallagher
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I am a huge fan of Gallagher and his teaching philosophies. This book provides great examples for deepening students' thinking and reading skills, while providing sample lessons and the knowledge needed to apply these skills to other reading material. I will refer to Gallagher's strategies again and again. This book is a great edition to any English teacher's resource library. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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.
Do your students often struggle with difficult novels and other challenging texts? Do they think one reading of a work is more than enough? Do they primarily comprehend at a surface level, and are they frequently unwilling or unable to discover the deeper meaning found in multi-layered works? Do you feel that you are doing more work teaching the novel then they are reading it? Building on twenty years of teaching language arts, Kelly Gallagher, author of Reading Reasons, shows how students can be taught to successfully read a broad range of challenging and difficult texts with deeper levels of comprehension. In Deeper Reading, Kelly shares effective, classroom-tested strategies that enable your students to: accept the challenge of reading difficult books; move beyond a first-draft understanding of the text into deeper levels of reading; consciously monitor their comprehension as they read; employe effective fix-it strategies when their comprehension begins to falter; use meaningful collaboration to achieve deeper understanding of texts; think metaphorically too deepen their reading comprehension; reach deeper levels of reflection by understanding the relevance the book holds for themselves and their peers; use critical thinking skills to analyze real-world issues. Kelly also provides guidance on effective lesson planning that incorporates strategies for deeper reading. Funny, poignant, and packed with practical ideas that work in real classrooms, Deeper Reading is a valuable resource for any teacher whose students need new tools to uncover the riches found in complex texts. - Back cover. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)372.47Social sciences Education Primary education (Elementary education) Reading Reading comprehension strategiesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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