More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension: Expanding Students' Understanding of All Types of Texts

by Frank Serafini, Suzette Youngs

Lessons in Comprehension helped your students improve their comprehension. Now take your readers to the next level with More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension. With More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension Frank Serafini and Suzette Youngs present 64 new, more sophisticated lessons for elementary and middle school readers. Lessons that make explicit the skills students need to engage with a wide variety of texts of increasing complexity. Youll help More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension also offers you a powerful new tool for assessing your teaching and its effectiveness. Its Instructional Trajectory allows you More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension is a complete resource. Its supported by the actual classroom language that Serafini and Youngs use with their students as well as examples of all the forms, charts, and artifacts related to each lesson. If youve already taught with Lessons in Comprehension , pick up More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension . Or if youve just discovered Serafini and Youngs approach, try More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension in your classroom. Either way, youll find that More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension deepens students understandingone ready-to-use lesson at a time. To purchase More (Advanced) Lessons in Expanding Students' Understanding of All Types of Texts as an eBook, .

Genres: Professional Development

200 pages, Paperback

First published March 10, 2008

About the author

Dr. Frank Serafini is an author, illustrator, photographer, educator, musician, and a Professor of Literacy Education and Children’s Literature at Arizona State University.
Frank has published seven books with Heinemann, including: The Reading Workshop, Reading Aloud and Beyond, Lessons in Comprehension, and Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days and Classroom Reading Assessments which will be available in 2010. In addition, Frank has published Reading the Visual (2014) and Beyond the Visual (2022) with Teachers College Press.
In 2008, Frank began writing and illustrating a series of non-fiction picturebooks focusing on nature with Kids Can Press. The Looking Closely series contains books about the desert, garden, pond, rainforest, shore and forest. In 2009, Looking Closely Along the Shore won an International Reading Association’s Teachers’ Choice Award, and Honorable Mention from the Society of School Librarians International.
A true “Renaissance Man,” Frank loves to travel, sing, play guitar, cook, draw, read, visit art galleries, and watch movies. His workshops are packed with important information and practical ideas, all delivered with a great sense of humor.