The reading strategies book : your everything guide to developing skilled readers

Summary: This resource provides 300 strategies for teaching reading. It lays out specific goals for the reader, section by section, accompanied by many graphic tools and visual aids. The book also designates specific reader levels, from pre-emergent to higher fluency and comprehension, which the text follows in an ascending order. Teaching tips, lesson language and prompts are included with the strategies.

Record details

ISBN: 9780325074337
Physical Description: print
xii, 388 pages : illustrations : 26 cm
Publisher: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann , 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:

At head of title: With 300 strategies.

Formatted Contents Note:

Goal 1. Supporting pre-emergent and emergent readers -- Goal 2. Teaching reading engagement: focus, stamina, and building a reading life -- Goal 3. Supporting print work: increasing accuracy and integrating sources of information -- Goal 4. Teaching fluency: reading with phrasing, intonation, and automaticity -- Goal 5. Supporting comprehension in fiction: understanding plot and setting -- Goal 6. Supporting comprehension in fiction: thinking about characters -- Goal 7. Supporting comprehension in fiction: understanding themes and ideas -- Goal 8. Supporting comprehension in nonfiction: determining main topic(s) and idea(s) -- Goal 9. Supporting comprehension in nonfiction: determining key details -- Goal 10. Supporting comprehension in nonfiction: getting the most from text features -- Goal 11. Improving comprehension in fiction and nonfiction: understanding vocabulary and figurative language -- Goal 12. Supporting students' conversations: speaking, listening, and deepening comprehension -- Goal 13. Improving writing about reading.