Use these fun, easy-to-use activities to tackle the most
challenging aspect of reading!
"Finally, someone has written a practical book filled with easy-to-read
comprehension strategies. I will definitely use this book with teachers in my
district to teach about and review comprehension strategies. The section on 'How
Can We Learn More' is also fantastic. Thank you, Kathleen Jonson."
--Hazel Brauer, Literacy Coordinator
Jefferson Elementary School District, Daly City, CA
"This book is a comprehensive, well-organized guide to teaching reading
comprehension. The clear, consistent layout of the lesson plans makes it easy
for the teacher to locate and implement appropriate lessons quickly. The
examples are very helpful and the templates allow a teacher to begin lessons
immediately. The wide variety of lesson plans makes this guide truly useful for
all grade levels."
--Myra Gamble, Reading Specialist
Spring Valley School, Millbrae, CA
Comprehension is the final goal of reading, but because it involves several
cognitive processes, it remains the most difficult facet of reading development
to teach. Based on the recommendations of the National Reading Panel Report, 60
Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in Grades K-8provides
teachers with a ready-to-use toolkit of tried-and-true learning strategies
designed to actively engage students in cognitive processes, including
predicting, visualizing, making inferences, monitoring, synthesizing, and
summarizing. Developed as specific instructional procedures with clearly
delineated steps for implementation, these entertaining activities are effective
in all types of classrooms. Each of the 60 strategies in the book includes:
- Grade-level recommendations
- Goals for each strategy
- Step-by-step instructions
- Graphics and examples of student work
- Directions for modifying strategies for different grade levels
Literary expert Kathleen Feeney Jonson has created an exciting resource to
help educators teach the most difficult piece of the reading process:
comprehension. Offering a rare combination of fun and function, these strategies
are sure to get students to listen, laugh, and most important, to learn.