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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
A child may be a great decoder, but that's only one step toward becoming a fluent reader. Reading implies thinking and understanding, and teachers can help children develop strategies for comprehension. Children need to know how to make connections and ask questions, how to visualize and infer, how to extract important ideas and to synthesize information if they are to bec...more
Paperback, 328 pages
Published
February 13th 2000
by Stenhouse Publishers
(first published February 2000)
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You can read this cover to cover or pieces at a time... whatever you do, just read it! There is a newer edition, but I read this one in 2001 and it changed my teaching!
Update: just returned from attending seminar with Ms. Harvey ..... And am inspired to reread this book. What she wrote in Strategies That Work is still relevant today ..especially in this day of test driven teaching. "Always trust your best judgement " ....no nonsense and practical.... I will reading the updated edition!
Update: just returned from attending seminar with Ms. Harvey ..... And am inspired to reread this book. What she wrote in Strategies That Work is still relevant today ..especially in this day of test driven teaching. "Always trust your best judgement " ....no nonsense and practical.... I will reading the updated edition!
Several of us at work read this as a book club during the winter/spring of 2007. The idea is that together we would investigate various reading strategies and share our successes and frustrations.
Interestingly, Strategies That Work mirrors a lot of what we as a district are moving towards with adopting our L.E.A.D.S. model in the middle school; namely, restructuring the language program to teach strategies rather than details and incorporating other disciplines (Social Studies and Science) as we...more
Interestingly, Strategies That Work mirrors a lot of what we as a district are moving towards with adopting our L.E.A.D.S. model in the middle school; namely, restructuring the language program to teach strategies rather than details and incorporating other disciplines (Social Studies and Science) as we...more
Didn't read this, just skimmed it. The advice is basically consistent with other reading comprehension resources: make connections between the text and your experience/other texts/other parts of the original text. Visualize. Ask questions.
This book contains much more detail than other similar books I've read (>300 pages), with many detailed lesson plans. Each technique is broken down into several possible variants and flavours, each of which is treated separately. Most of the examples relate...more
This book contains much more detail than other similar books I've read (>300 pages), with many detailed lesson plans. Each technique is broken down into several possible variants and flavours, each of which is treated separately. Most of the examples relate...more
Jan 08, 2008
Lars Guthrie
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4 of 5 stars
Recommended to Lars by:
My sister (who also works with children) and an elementary schoo
Places visualization, a comprehension technique I use in my work with kids as the centerpiece of a spectrum of increasingly complex strategies for understanding: Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Determining Importance and Synthesizing. While there's almost too much here, I guess that's not too much of a complaint (better than not enough) and for someone who wants to learn about kids' lit, there are great appendixes with lists of different types of books.
Good quote:
When w...more
Good quote:
When w...more
Apr 06, 2008
Rebekah
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
educators
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required reading for class
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education
This book had some great strategies for teaching making connections, questioning, inferring, visualizing and synthesizing information. I think the methods described would be a great help in teaching students comprehension strategies, but I think the program would work best if it was begun young and continued throughout the education of the student. They could be used as an intervention at any time, but I see this as a comprehensive program that would be most effective if implemented across grade...more
I read this book in 2001 and it changed the way I teach reading comprehension. It is one of my comprehension bibles, along with Elen Keene's Mosaic of Thought and Debbie Miller's Reading with Meaning. I carry all three with me wherever I go. This is the first book I give to a new teacher. Outstanding!!
I read this book with a group of colleagues to help encourage reading in the classroom. It was actually quite interesting. I went into the reading study with the idea that I was a Social Studies teacher and I didn't have too many opportunities to teach reading in my classroom; after working with others, I am now seeing the many ways I can help my students become stronger readers on many different levels. I believe this is a great book because it opened my eyes of the opportunities I have to reac...more
This book altered my teaching practices forever-- a seminal work in how to teach reading comprehension to children.
I love this book. Read it when it was first ublished, and I still use it all the time in my classroom.
The book that shaped my language arts teaching. Fabulous!
Jun 10, 2010
Lisa Robinson
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Not an easy read, but has some good information.
Have had this on my bookshelf for some time now, and am just now getting to it. I have read bits and pieces over the years, but not a thorough reading. This book is packed with so much information, so many skills and ideas that I am finding myself reading v-e-r-y slowly; I keep stopping to make notes or write a lesson plan!
Comprehensive discussion of reading strategies.
I am always skeptical about reading strategies, just because so often they can be overused by the well-meaning and interfere with kids' enjoyment of reading. However, this one seems to focus on strategies for nonfiction, and the writers take care to point out that strategies are more appropriate for efferent (rather than aesthetic) reading.
This book was packed full of strategies to help young readers become more successful students. It included questioning, visualizing, determining importance in text, synthesizing, and many other strategies.
Another book that I wished I had more time to delve into while I was teaching! Brought back some great inservice moments though!
I'm just now reading this book for a literacy class, but Harvey writes everything well, so I feel confident with the rating.
May 27, 2008
Dani
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2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Teachers who teach in the general ed classroom
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A "must read" by my district
Although this book gives some good ideas, it is a bit dry it is best for classroom teachers.
Excellent, easy to read, applicable strategies. This book even includes model lessons.
Maybe I could REALLY teach comprehension once we get rid of Houghton Mifflin.
This book finally helped me answer the burning question, "What are fix-up strategies?"
Filled with mini-lessons to teach explicit reading strategies for K-12.
Wonderful resource for those teaching comprehension strategies.
professional reading
May 19, 2013
Jill
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