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xii, 276 pages ; 27 cm |
| Summary |
"Gaining the skills to critically read a wide variety of informational texts is more important than ever for today's K-12 students. This carefully crafted book offers 40 standards-based instructional activities that teachers can immediately put to use in the classroom. Clear rationales and step-by-step instructions are provided for implementing each strategy, together with helpful classroom examples and suggested texts for different grade levels. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 44 reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. (Prior edition title: 35 Strategies for Guiding Readers through Informational Texts.) New to This Edition *Now features more strategies, including 16 that are completely new. *Explicit links throughout to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and other current standards. *Two additional strands of activities: Reading Closely and Discussion. *Numerous new and revised reproducible tools--all downloadable"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Gaining the skills to critically read a wide variety of informational texts is more important than ever for today's K-12 students. This carefully crafted book offers 40 standards based instructional activities that teachers can immediately put to use in the classroom. Clear rationales and step by step instructions are provided for implementing each strategy, together with helpful classroom examples and suggested texts for different grade levels. In a large size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 44 reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Planning a Lesson with Informational Text -- Understanding and Evaluating Informational Texts -- Assessing Text Complexity -- Shared Reading and Text Feature Search -- Anticipation Guide -- KWHL: K = (What I Know), W = (What I Want to Know). H = (How I Will Find Out), L = (What I Learned) -- KLEW: K = (What I Know), L = (What I Learned), E = (What Evidence Do I Have for My Learning?), W = (What Additional Questions or Wonderings Do I Have?) -- Table of Contents Prediction -- Imagine, Elaborate, Predict, and Confirm -- Word Map -- SLAP: S = (Say the word and write it here.), L = (Look for context clues. List them here.), A = (Ask myself what it means and write it here.), P = (Put the synonym in the sentence and write it here. Does it make sense? If not, start over with steps 3 and 4.) -- Root Wheel -- List-Group-Label -- Word Sort -- Semantic Feature Analysis -- Close Reading -- Close Thinking -- Text Annotation -- Text Dependent Questions -- Thinking Aloud -- Sticky Notes Bookmark -- Study Guide -- Four Box Comment Card -- Chart -- CAATS: Creator, Assumptions, Audience/User, Time and Place, Significance -- Text Structures -- Interactive Notebook -- Discussion Web -- 4-3-2-1 Discussion -- Intra Act -- Talking Points -- Three Step Interview -- 3 Minute Pause -- Readers' Theatre -- Paragraph Writing Frames -- I Used to Think. but Now I Know. -- Summary Writing -- CLIQUES: CL, Claim; I, Introduction of Quotation; QU, Quotation; E, Explanation of Quotation; S, So What? -- EPIC: E, Evidence; P, Patterns; I, Inquiry; C, Claims -- Two Column Journal. |
| Subject |
Reading comprehension -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Reading Skills.
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EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy.
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| Added Author |
Loh-Hagan, Virginia, author.
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| Added Title |
Forty strategies for guiding readers through informational texts |
| ISBN |
9781462526093 (paperback) |
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1462526098 (paperback) |
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