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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement
Since its publication in 2000, Strategies That Work has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the scope of the book and explorin...more
Paperback, 344 pages
Published
January 1st 2007
by Stenhouse Publishers
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The first edition of Strategies that Work was a great tool to help teachers dive into reading comprehension instruction. It provided a framework and a language to talk explicitly about the skills good readers use to make meaning from text. This new edition is a substantial improvement on that first ground breaking work. It reflects Harvey and Goudvis' developing understanding of reading comprehension and how that plays out in classrooms. What is most admirable about this work is that it ackn...more
While this book is aimed at teachers of younger students, I've found lots of lines that perfectly support my approach to reading in the high school setting. Choice, prediction, questioning...all are part of what I do every day with students. I like the flexibility of their approach. And I absolutely appreciate the student examples, both the strong examples and not-so-strong. A teacher could use them in class as the models and have a rich conversation.
The last chapters were the ones m...more
The last chapters were the ones m...more
I loved the layout of this book -- easy to access comprehension strategies and K-6 ideas illustrated with student work that make the lessons easy to try. I read this during our ILT work as part of a research review, but ended up using it on my own in my classroom. It brings some practical ideas for Reader's Workshop mini-lessons and aligns well with the Regie philosophy I so love.
OK...I've read this before. But I thought I needed to come back and review the Chapter on Questioning. I am really interested in working on the Wonder Book for my science class...and also incorporating the idea of Thick and Thin ?s into my class next year.
Just as good the second time around as it was the first time I read it.
Just as good the second time around as it was the first time I read it.
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Finished this last night as I sat as a "warden" trying to get seven 8 year old boys to go to sleep. Love this book. It reminds me of a school I recently visited in Chicago, Burley. I feel like if my kids were in a classroom that used this book as their overall philosophy of teaching, that would be a very good year. This will be one I return to often.
The thing I like most about this book is that it's research-based, but has explicit lessons in it so you can see how the theory is put into practice. Works elementary through high school.
Tady jsem se poprvé dozvěděla, že učit literaturu můžu i jinak, než naléváním historických souvislostí.
This is an excellent resource for teachers of any grade. Hands-on, real-world application for chilren's readings.
From all accounts this new edition of Stephanie Harvey's original: Strategies That Work is worth purchasing.
The second edition has a few added chapters about testing questions and non-fiction/textbook reading
Reading for my graduate class. Great book for any age teacher!!!
Just can't reread this enough! Now our District is using the Second Edition as a book study-couldn't be happier to welcome in those who'd not yet read it!
A very practical guide for strategy lessons.
Favorite professional book of all times!!!
Great and easy to use lesson ideas.
Like the Bible, except way more useful
Lots of good ideas in here.
Book study summer of 2009
grad school read.
Great practical ideas for teaching comprehension. Good chapter on testing. Read for CI499
This is a great professional resource for teachers k-8 that are looking to teach comprehension strategies. It gives detailed examples of what strategies such as visualizing, inferring, predicting look like and sound like. They give great mini-lessons at different grade levels as well. The appendixes with lists of books sorted by comprehension strategies and genres would make unit planning much easier for beginning teachers.
Useful for helping kids learn how to read.
Excellent book for clearly laying out the information about the strategies good readers use and that ALL readers should be taught. The lessons included are wonderful, and can serve to guide a new teacher or as a "jumping-off" place for an experienced teacher. This book is marked as "read", but it is on the shelf next to my desk and I pull it out every week as I plan lessons!
Effective reading and writing strategies to use in the classroom
I'm reading a chapter a day. So far it really has me thinking literacy in a new way, and I'm getting exciting to do a few things differently next year.
GREAT lesson plan ideas for teaching reading comprehension. There are student examples from actual lessons given by teachers where students wrote, drew, and discussed in response to texts. It is a good resource for planning a reading curriculum, but not for planning intervention lessons.
This book is similar to a textbook, with tons of information. However, it includes lots of ways to apply the information, shows examples of students work and how to interpret and diagnose their comprehension.
My absolute favorite resource at the moment. In depth explanations on best-practices for teaching reading and writing. Wonderful activities and realistic ideas and extensions to classroom reading.
This edition is basically an update of the original strategies book that Stephanie Harvey wrote. There are quite a few new lessons included- I think its a good resource to have in the bookcase!
I really like this book. It is very engaging and allows for easy comprehension on text-to-self connections.
Great resource to keep in hand.
Great resource to keep in hand.
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