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2nd Edition

Teaching Strategic Processes in Reading 2ed

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Janice F Almasi, Susan King Fullerton

  • Teaching Strategic Processes in Reading 2ed

364 pages
Interest Age: 5 to 14
2012
ISBN: 9781462506293

This accessible teacher resource and course text shows how to incorporate strategy instruction into the K-8 classroom every day. Cutting-edge theory and research are integrated with practical guidance and reflections from experienced teachers of novice and struggling readers.

The book describes the nuts and bolts of creating classroom contexts that foster strategy use, combining explicit comprehension instruction with scaffolded support, and providing opportunities for students to verbalise their thinking. It features reproducible learning activities and planning and assessment tools.

New to This Edition

  • The latest knowledge and classroom-tested methods.
  • Chapter on response to intervention.
  • Chapter on organizing instruction across the school day and week.
  • Expanded practical content, including sample lessons and more early literacy and upper-elementary examples.

This book will be helpful to classroom teachers, reading specialists and literacy coaches in grades K-8; teacher educators and graduate students.

Table of Contents

  1. What Does It Mean to Be Strategic?
  2. Critical Elements of Strategies Instruction: Designing Effective Environments
  3. Responsive Teaching Frameworks within Response to Intervention
  4. Assessing Strategic Processing
  5. Why Students Struggle with Comprehension
  6. Strategy Instruction That Enhances Comprehension
  7. Strategy Instruction That Enhances Word Recognition
  8. The Path to Becoming a Successful Strategies Teacher
  9. Conclusions: Putting It All Together

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