Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement
by Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis
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In this new edition of their groundbreaking book Strategies That Work, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis share the work and thinking they've done since the second edition came out a decade ago and offer new perspectives on how to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers.Thirty new lessons and new and revised chapters shine a light on children's thinking, curiosity, and questions. Steph and Anne tackle close reading, close show more listening, text complexity, and critical thinking in a new chapter on building knowledge through thinking-intensive reading and learning. Other fully revised chapters focus on digital reading, strategies for integrating comprehension and technology, and comprehension across the curriculum. Part I provides readers with a solid introduction to reading comprehension instruction, including the principles that guide practice, suggestions for text selection, and a review of recent research that underlies comprehension instruction.Part II contains lessons to put these principles into practice for all areas of reading comprehension.Part III shows you how to integrate comprehension instruction across the curriculum and the school day, particularly in science and social studies.Updated bibliographies, including the popular "Great Books for Teaching Content," are accessible online.Since the first publication of Strategies That Work, more than a million teachers have benefited from Steph and Anne's practical advice on creating classrooms that are incubators for deep thought.--Publisher's description. show lessTags
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The strategies (and their success) are all sold through anecdotal evidence and the occasional quote, with little to no statistical support. It's very readable as such, but significantly less scholarly than I would like. Editing could use a bit of assistance (one of the author's states that they "could care less" about something - an elementary slip-up; the phrase is "couldn't care less"). The bulk of the book is a in standard type, but the actual strategies themselves are shrunk by about two font-sizes making it somewhat painful and straining to read them (this coming from a 28-year-old with 20/20 vision...).
Excellent book on the Comprehension Strategies. Lots of lesson ideas for all grades. The new edition includes the complete 1st edition plus more ideas.
It's helpful for new teachers. I honestly haven't used it recently, but it's a good resource to have on hand.
Chapter 6 through 11 has many examples of how to teach the inner voice, questioning, using prior knowledge, visualizing and inferring, determining importance of text, and summarizing and synthesizing information. They also give ways to teach reading in science and social studies.
This book is practical and can be used for any grade.
This book is practical and can be used for any grade.
Fabulous book. Very easy to use as reference.
A "must-read" for understanding how readers comprehend and how to teach this. Need to read this in combination with Teaching for Deep Comprehension by Linda Dorn. Also need to read in combination with Ellin Keene's books on comprehension.
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