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Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading

AUTHOR McGregor, Tanny; Harvey, Stephanie
PUBLISHER Heinemann Educational Books (02/07/2007)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)
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Inferring, questioning, determining importance. It's not easy to explain these abstract reading strategies to elementary readers, yet knowing how they work and how to use them is an important first step to connecting with texts. Fortunately Tanny McGregor has developed visual, tangible, everyday lessons that make abstract thinking concrete and that can help every child in your classroom make more effective use of reading comprehension strategies.

Comprehension Connections is a guide to developing children's ability to fully understand texts by making the comprehension process achievable, accessible, and incremental. McGregor's approach sequences stages of learning for each strategy that take students from a fun object lesson to a nuanced and lasting understanding. Her lessons build bridges between the concrete and the abstract by incorporating writing, discussion, song, art, and movement into a web of creative connections that reinforce each strategy on a variety of levels. All the while Comprehension Connections offers an inside look at the dynamic of McGregor's teaching, showing you how her ideas look in action, and including the language she uses and that she encourages her students to use as they build their facility with:
  • schema
  • inferring
  • questioning
  • determining importance
  • visualizing
  • synthesizing.
Many students struggle to understand what it is they are supposed to do as they learn to read strategically. Help them make connections to the ideas behind reading and watch as your readers go deeper into texts than ever before.
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ISBN-13: 9780325008875
ISBN-10: 0325008876
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 144
Carton Quantity: 44
Product Dimensions: 7.35 x 0.31 x 9.26 inches
Weight: 0.57 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents, Ikids, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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BISAC Categories
Education | Teaching - Subjects - Reading & Phonics
Education | Schools - Levels - Elementary
Dewey Decimal: 372.623
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006034856
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Inferring, questioning, determining importance. It's not easy to explain these abstract reading strategies to elementary readers, yet knowing how they work and how to use them is an important first step to connecting with texts. Fortunately Tanny McGregor has developed visual, tangible, everyday lessons that make abstract thinking concrete and that can help every child in your classroom make more effective use of reading comprehension strategies.

Comprehension Connections is a guide to developing children's ability to fully understand texts by making the comprehension process achievable, accessible, and incremental. McGregor's approach sequences stages of learning for each strategy that take students from a fun object lesson to a nuanced and lasting understanding. Her lessons build bridges between the concrete and the abstract by incorporating writing, discussion, song, art, and movement into a web of creative connections that reinforce each strategy on a variety of levels. All the while Comprehension Connections offers an inside look at the dynamic of McGregor's teaching, showing you how her ideas look in action, and including the language she uses and that she encourages her students to use as they build their facility with:
  • schema
  • inferring
  • questioning
  • determining importance
  • visualizing
  • synthesizing.
Many students struggle to understand what it is they are supposed to do as they learn to read strategically. Help them make connections to the ideas behind reading and watch as your readers go deeper into texts than ever before.
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Author: McGregor, Tanny
Tanny McGregor has been teaching and learning in the West Clermont School District near Cincinnati, Ohio, for more than twenty years. She is a staff developer with specialties in literacy, thinking strategies, art, music, and gifted. A nationally-known keynoter and workshop presenter, Tanny has authored and coauthored two books for Heinemann: Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading and Comprehension Going Forward: Where We Are and What's Next. Tanny's newest book, Genre Connections will be released by Heinemann in Spring, 2013.
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