false 2815595 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2815595 1 2841520 29 1 2008 To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension total:17|5:11|4:5|3:1| 17 78 46 8 147143 4.26 195 36 40282146 1780774 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Tue Dec 16 22:48:49 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 22:48:56 -0800 2008 65789319 2365406 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 13:59:22 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 14:00:06 -0700 2009 24983647 1255369 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 5 0 false Fri Jun 20 09:15:54 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 09:21:26 -0700 2008 36124341 1046387 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Fri Oct 24 13:55:28 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 14:03:49 -0700 2008 18635696 1020959 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 4 0 false Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 18:39:03 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 06:06:00 -0700 2008 15978318 149128 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 5 0 false Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 21 06:40:05 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 11 06:41:58 -0700 2008 20496162 1091548 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 5 0 false Thu Jan 29 06:29:55 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 18 18:23:47 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 29 06:29:55 -0800 2009 41336183 637935 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Sat Jun 06 06:44:39 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 30 16:09:56 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 06 06:44:39 -0700 2009 81641636 3062838 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Mon Dec 21 05:50:11 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 21 05:50:50 -0800 2009 79984876 2478975 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Sat Dec 05 11:43:32 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 11:43:32 -0800 2009 78943668 1195690 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Wed Nov 25 07:22:13 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 07:22:17 -0800 2009 71599066 1913921 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Thu Sep 17 16:16:47 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 16:16:47 -0700 2009 70783271 208229 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 5 0 false Thu Sep 10 18:35:04 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 18:35:04 -0700 2009 69030529 2484850 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 5 0 false Wed Aug 26 19:19:27 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 19:20:38 -0700 2009 65676100 2402909 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Fri Jul 31 12:06:46 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 05:25:38 -0700 2009 65570935 2577934 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Thu Jul 30 14:06:16 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 14:06:16 -0700 2009 63616806 2524275 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 5 0 false Wed Jul 15 12:42:14 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 12:42:14 -0700 2009 63555826 2516841 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 5 0 false Wed Jul 15 00:45:01 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 00:45:01 -0700 2009 62450011 1279921 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Tue Jul 07 04:45:11 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 04:45:29 -0700 2009 61637174 1016585 2815595 0325003238 9780325003238 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815595.To_Understand_New_Horizons_in_Reading_Comprehension 4.59 17 “This is a work of incredible scope:sadventurous, ingratiating, challenging,sgenuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession.”</div><div align="right"> - Harvey Daniels</div><div align="right">Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. </div><div>s</div><div>In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding - characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text - to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction.</div><div>s</div><div>To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction - word learning and comprehension - and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts:</div><ul type="disc"> <li>Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li></ul><div>s</div><div>With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand - by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding - you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning.</div><div>s</div><div>There's still more - much more - to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.</div><div>s</div><div>s</div><div>s</div>]]> 2008 0 0 false Tue Jun 30 10:30:40 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 13:36:50 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2815595