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Presents a model for teaching reading comprehension to young children, providing examples from the author's classroom and discussing inference, question asking, determination of importance, mental images, children's book clubs, and other strategies and activities.

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Presents a guide to reading critically, offering tips and activities to improve reading comprehension, covering such topics as point of view, context clues, rhyme schemes, and deciphering fact from fiction. The ability to read critically is an essential skill vital to success in school. For example, do you know what point of view means? Or how to "read" a picture? Can you tell fact from opinion? Well, whether you're a kid who's just starting to read...

This resource gives classroom teachers and reading specialists 80 stimulating illustrated two-page animal stories and 80 illustrated two-page activity sheets for building students' vocabulary, reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Identifies the elements of an effective reading lesson, and presents strategies teachers may use to help secondary students read and understand challenging fiction and nonfiction books. Do your students often struggle with difficult novels and other challenging texts? Do they think one reading of a work is more than enough? Do they primarily comprehend at a surface level, and are they frequently unwilling or unable to discover the deeper meaning...

Practical, engaging account of how teachers can help adolescents develop new reading comprehension skills. Cris Tovani is an accomplished teacher and staff developer who writes with verve and humor about the challenges of working with students at all levels of achievement - from those who have mastered the art of "fake reading" to college-bound juniors and seniors who struggle with the different demands of content-area textbooks and novels. Enter...