Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement

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Since its publication in 2000, Strategies That Work has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the scope of the book and exploring the central role that activating background knowledge plays in understanding. Another major addition is the inclusion of a section on content literacy which describes how to apply comprehension strategies flexibly across the curriculum. The new edition is organized around four sections:

Through its focus on instruction that is responsive to kids' interests and learning needs, the first edition of Strategies That Work helped transform comprehension instruction for teachers across the country. For them, this new edition will be a welcome extension of that work. Those coming to it for the first time will find a current and essential resource. When readers use these strategies, they enjoy a more complete, thoughtful reading experience. Engagement is the goal. When kids are engaged in their reading they enhance their understanding, acquire knowledge, and learn from and remember what they read. And best yet, they will want to read more!

What Customers Say About Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement:

It has several great examples of strategies for teaching reading comprehension to K through 8th grade. This is a well written book.

Its great as a part of a series. "Reading With Meaning" is better for K, first, and second grade teachers. This is a great book but I think its better for teachers of third grade and higher. This is like third, fourth, fifth grade version.

This is an amazing book if you've always wondered what strategies and thinking (and not specific skills that will soon be forgotten) to teach whole group in reading. covers (i.e. The authors give specific lessons to teach THINKING strategies: metacognition, making connections, visualizing, questioning, inferring, determining important info, and synthesizing and summarizing.This book is great but will be even better if paired with this book (which isn't packaged with the "Buy Together" from Amazon) Comprehension Connections by Tanny McGregor Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading. Harvey, one of the authors of Strategies that Work, writes the foreword.

She gives examples of using songs, art, wordless picture books for sensory experiences and basically hits different intelligences. schema) by using concrete experiences to help students understand and NOT forget what schema is (i.e. Use the lint roller to stick everything together and this represents your unique schema). My students are definitely thinking more, but I think they would have retained more if they would have had these concrete experiences first. After giving students several "sensory" experiences with the strategy, you then teach lessons from Strategies that Work with the concrete experiences in place. I've used this in my 2nd year of teaching, but my colleagues in their 10th and 20th years of teaching love it too.

using a lint roller and pieces of paper with your experiences, opinions, feelings, memories. This is a glowing review for both books :) S. This book discusses the lessons you teach before teaching each of the strategies Harvey, et al.

I tutor freshman and do not see a correlation for use with 14 year olds. All the illustrations etc are for grade school. Sorry I read all the reviews for this book before I purchased it and was assured that these strategies would work for high school kids. I do not see that.

It's easy to read and a phenomenal resource. The authors write as if they are there talking with you.