Strategies That Work. Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement

Customer Reviews

Strategies that Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement

2008-01-02
A group of our teachers is doing a book study and are getting lots of great ideas from this book!

Strategies that Work

2007-12-31
This book is a gem. It is written in a graceful and readable style. The authors fill the book with examples that illustrate keys to improving reading comprehension, apt books, stories or readings that reinforce the point, teacher-student communications and examples of teacher-student work. For anyone involved in teaching reading comprehension or tutoring students with reading difficulties, it is an invaluable resource.

excellent

2007-09-23
The book was in great condition. It didn't even look used! Great seller and great product!

WOW!

2007-08-07
This book is an absolutely wonderful resource!!! There are a tremendous amount of strategies and examples provided to teach students how to enhance their comprehension. The best thing about this book is that it not only provides the various strategies, as many often do, but it shows real world examples of how each strategy can be used for a variety of ages and subject matter. In addition, it provides an excellent resource list of recommended books, magazines, and newspapers for teaching content.

This is a must have for anyone interested in helping students develop their comprehension skills!

What they should have let you read before you graduated

2007-08-07
This book is absolutely wonderful. The ideas are fantastic, it breaks it down and gives you examples of how to use the strategies! This helps the new teacher and the teacher that wants to re-vamp their strategies. I definetely recommend this book to EVERY teacher. It's also a great addition to a professional development library.

Engaging Children Through Understanding What They Read

2008-07-07
Engaging children in books and loving reading is a natural next step when they understand and go to a deeper level to embrace books. Another must-have for kids 4-8 are 2 fabulous pieces of children's literature with invaluable teaching guides for parents and teachers:The Big Squeal: A Wild, True, and Twisted Tail and
Life's Little Lessons: An Inch-By-Inch Tale of Success...which teach those all important early reading skills and develop a love for reading !

Strategies That Work

2008-07-01
A wonderful teaching resource for teaching reading comprehension strategies. A must read for all elementary teachers!

Excellent comprehension lessons

2008-05-05
I absolutely love the lessons in this book. There are excellent modeling lessons and ideas to help your students increase their reading comprehension skills. You won't regret buying this book.

The Best book for the classroom

2008-04-23
This is an AWESOME book. I had the opportunity to listen to Stephanie Harvey talk and she is amazing! This book makes such perfect common sense. We use the Comprehension toolkit in our school and this book goes right along with it. I actually want to expand and use this book more. It is great not only for the language arts classroom but for all content area classes. This is a must have for your professional library!!!!

When they say K-8...they mean it

2008-02-23
Most of the reviews mention what a great teaching tool this is so I thought why can't it work for me? I'm an adult that was looking for a book to help increase my reading comprehension. My thoughts were to to go back to the beginning. Though there were some good ideas, this book was by far elementary. It does cover the basic reading comprehension skills about making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, etc. However, the articles, examples, drawings are all written for and by children. I can 100% understand how elementary teachers and children could benefit from this book. But if you are an adult who struggles with reading comprehension this is NOT the book for you. My suggestion is to try "Read Better, Remember More" by Elizabeth Chesla. It is fantasic. It has exceptional practice exercises and skill building ideas that can help you become a good reader who interacts with the text.