Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Engagement, Understanding, and Building Knowledge, Grades K-8

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Engagement, Understanding, and Building Knowledge, Grades K-8

<DIV>In this new edition of their groundbreaking book <I>Strategies That Work</I>, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis share the work and thinking they’ve done since the second edition came out a decade ago and offer new perspectives on how to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers.<BR /> Thirty new lessons and new and revised chapters shine a light on children’s thinking, curiosity, and questions. Steph and Anne tackle close reading, close listening, text complexity, and critical thinking in a new chapter on building knowledge through thinking-intensive reading and learning. Other fully revised chapters focus on digital reading, strategies for integrating comprehension and technology, and comprehension across the curriculum.<BR /> The new edition is organized around three sections:<BR /><BR /> Part I provides readers with a solid introduction to reading comprehension instruction, including the principles that guide practice, suggestions for text selection, and a review of recent research that underlies comprehension instruction.<BR /> Part II contains lessons to put these principles into practice for all areas of reading comprehension.<BR /> Part III shows you how to integrate comprehension instruction across the curriculum and the school day, particularly in science and social studies.<BR /> Updated bibliographies, including the popular “Great Books for Teaching Content,” are accessible online.<BR /> Since the first publication of <I>Strategies That Work</I>, more than a million teachers have benefited from Steph and Anne’s practical advice on creating classrooms that are incubators for deep thought. This third edition is a must-have resource for a generation of new teachers—and a welcome refresher for those with dog-eared copies of this timeless guide to teaching comprehension.<BR />  </DIV>