Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers
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"The strengths of this book are many. It translates theory into practice, showing how a solid theory can inform one's teaching."
Stevi Quate, Co-director of the Secondary Literacy Network
University of Colorado at Denver
"Very comprehensive! It contains everything a teacher needs to guide students in comprehension."
Aileen Carew, Marin Reading Council President & Reading Specialist
Bel Aire School, Tiburon, CA
When students learn to read strategically, they read to learn!
How do some students extract complex information from advanced reading materials while others struggle to find the meaning of even simple passages? What characteristics do strategic readers exhibit that others don't possess? Unlocking the cognitive strategies of exceptional readers means finding ways to teach every student to read strategically, and help them be successfull in the classroom and beyond. This essential reading instruction teaching tool offers hard evidence to show how effective readers use specific strategies to extract and comprehend information.
Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers melds scientific research with hands-on experience to offer a comprehensive look at reading instruction. Instructors will discover that they can use the seven strategies no matter what their teaching style, and students will discover how to read to learn. McEwan has developed easily reproducible tools geared toward helping teachers get the most out of their readers:
- Teacher Think-Alouds to facilitate modeling the seven strategies for your students
- Templates to speed planning time
- Activities to encourage use of the seven strategies
- Forms, posters, props, and prompts to assist both students and teachers
While theories come and go, research has shown that using these seven strategies will prove successful in the classroom-and beyond.
Contents
Preface
Preface
About the Author
- The Goals of the Book
- Special Features of the Book
- Who the Book is for
- Overview of the Contents
- Acknowledgments
1. The Power of Strategic Reading Instruction
- What is Strategic Reading?
- What is Strategic Reading Instruction (SRI)
- What are the Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers?
- What are the Prerequisites for Strategic Reading Instruction?
- When is a Strategy not a Strategy?
- What's Ahead?
2. Becoming a Strategic Teacher
- What Does a Strategic Teacher Look Like?
- The Teaching Moves of a Strategic Teacher
- The Challenges of Strategic Reading Instruction
- The Benefits of SRI
- What's Ahead?
3. Understanding the Seven Strategies
- Cognitive Strategy #1: Activating
- Cognitive Strategy #2: Inferring
- Cognitive Strategy #3: Monitoring-Clarifying
- Cognitive Strategy #4: Questioning
- Cognitive Strategy #5: Searching-Selecting
- Cognitive Strategy #6: Summarizing
- Cognitive Strategy #7: Visualizing-Organizing
- What's Ahead?
4. Instructional Activities to Engage Your Students
- Turn on Your CPU (Central Processing Unit): Grades 1-8
- Turn on Your Math CPU (Central Processing Unit): Grades 4-8
- Add it up: Grades 3-8
- A Dozen Ways to Infer: Grades 3-8
- A Dozen Ways to Say Infer: Grades 4-8
- Fix-up Your Mix-ups: Grades 1-8
- Do You Have Any Questions? Grades 4-8
- The Prospector: Grades 4-8
- The Summarizers Five C's: Grades 3-8
- Visualize a Video: Grades K-2
- It Pays to Increase Your Word Power: Grades 2-8
- Organize it: Grades 3-8
- What's Ahead?
5. Organizing for Strategic Reading Instruction (SRI) in Your Classroom
- When Should Strategy Instruction Begin?
- How Should I Introduce SRI to My Students?
- Do I Have to Think Aloud?
- How Should SRI Be Paced and Sequenced?
- What if an Instructional Activity Doesn't Work?
- How Will I Know if My Students are Using the Strategies?
- Where Will I Find Time for SRI?
- How Can I Juggle It All?
- What Does a Lesson Look Like?
- What's Ahead?
6. Implementing Schoolwide Strategic Reading Instruction
- SRI Requires a Pervasive and Persuasive Reading Culture
- SRI Requires Balanced Instruction
- SRI Requires a Research-based Curriculum
- Is Your School or District Ready for SRI?
- Conclusion
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"The strengths of this book are many. It translates theory into practice, showing how a solid theory can inform one's teaching."
Stevi Quate, Co-director of the Secondary Literacy Network
University of Colorado at Denver
"Very comprehensive! It contains everything a teacher needs to guide students in comprehension."
Aileen Carew, Marin Reading Council President & Reading Specialist
Bel Aire School, Tiburon, CA
When students learn to read strategically, they read to learn!
How do some students extract complex information from advanced reading materials while others struggle to find the meaning of even simple passages? What characteristics do strategic readers exhibit that others don't possess? Unlocking the cognitive strategies of exceptional readers means finding ways to teach every student to read strategically, and help them be successfull in the classroom and beyond. This essential reading instruction teaching tool offers hard evidence to show how effective readers use specific strategies to extract and comprehend information.
Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers melds scientific research with hands-on experience to offer a comprehensive look at reading instruction. Instructors will discover that they can use the seven strategies no matter what their teaching style, and students will discover how to read to learn. McEwan has developed easily reproducible tools geared toward helping teachers get the most out of their readers:
- Teacher Think-Alouds to facilitate modeling the seven strategies for your students
- Templates to speed planning time
- Activities to encourage use of the seven strategies
- Forms, posters, props, and prompts to assist both students and teachers
While theories come and go, research has shown that using these seven strategies will prove successful in the classroom-and beyond.
Contents
Preface
Preface
About the Author
- The Goals of the Book
- Special Features of the Book
- Who the Book is for
- Overview of the Contents
- Acknowledgments
1. The Power of Strategic Reading Instruction
- What is Strategic Reading?
- What is Strategic Reading Instruction (SRI)
- What are the Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers?
- What are the Prerequisites for Strategic Reading Instruction?
- When is a Strategy not a Strategy?
- What's Ahead?
2. Becoming a Strategic Teacher
- What Does a Strategic Teacher Look Like?
- The Teaching Moves of a Strategic Teacher
- The Challenges of Strategic Reading Instruction
- The Benefits of SRI
- What's Ahead?
3. Understanding the Seven Strategies
- Cognitive Strategy #1: Activating
- Cognitive Strategy #2: Inferring
- Cognitive Strategy #3: Monitoring-Clarifying
- Cognitive Strategy #4: Questioning
- Cognitive Strategy #5: Searching-Selecting
- Cognitive Strategy #6: Summarizing
- Cognitive Strategy #7: Visualizing-Organizing
- What's Ahead?
4. Instructional Activities to Engage Your Students
- Turn on Your CPU (Central Processing Unit): Grades 1-8
- Turn on Your Math CPU (Central Processing Unit): Grades 4-8
- Add it up: Grades 3-8
- A Dozen Ways to Infer: Grades 3-8
- A Dozen Ways to Say Infer: Grades 4-8
- Fix-up Your Mix-ups: Grades 1-8
- Do You Have Any Questions? Grades 4-8
- The Prospector: Grades 4-8
- The Summarizers Five C's: Grades 3-8
- Visualize a Video: Grades K-2
- It Pays to Increase Your Word Power: Grades 2-8
- Organize it: Grades 3-8
- What's Ahead?
5. Organizing for Strategic Reading Instruction (SRI) in Your Classroom
- When Should Strategy Instruction Begin?
- How Should I Introduce SRI to My Students?
- Do I Have to Think Aloud?
- How Should SRI Be Paced and Sequenced?
- What if an Instructional Activity Doesn't Work?
- How Will I Know if My Students are Using the Strategies?
- Where Will I Find Time for SRI?
- How Can I Juggle It All?
- What Does a Lesson Look Like?
- What's Ahead?
6. Implementing Schoolwide Strategic Reading Instruction
- SRI Requires a Pervasive and Persuasive Reading Culture
- SRI Requires Balanced Instruction
- SRI Requires a Research-based Curriculum
- Is Your School or District Ready for SRI?
- Conclusion
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers
Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement
April 2004 | 224 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9780761946212 | $41.95 |
| Lifetime | 27/02/2023 | 9781483360836 | $38.00 |
"The strengths of this book are many. It translates theory into practice, showing how a solid theory can inform one's teaching."
Stevi Quate, Co-director of the Secondary Literacy Network
University of Colorado at Denver
"Very comprehensive! It contains everything a teacher needs to guide students in comprehension."
Aileen Carew, Marin Reading Council President & Reading Specialist
Bel Aire School, Tiburon, CA
When students learn to read strategically, they read to learn!
How do some students extract complex information from advanced reading materials while others struggle to find the meaning of even simple passages? What characteristics do strategic readers exhibit that others don't possess? Unlocking the cognitive strategies of exceptional readers means finding ways to teach every student to read strategically, and help them be successfull in the classroom and beyond. This essential reading instruction teaching tool offers hard evidence to show how effective readers use specific strategies to extract and comprehend information.
Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers melds scientific research with hands-on experience to offer a comprehensive look at reading instruction. Instructors will discover that they can use the seven strategies no matter what their teaching style, and students will discover how to read to learn. McEwan has developed easily reproducible tools geared toward helping teachers get the most out of their readers:
- Teacher Think-Alouds to facilitate modeling the seven strategies for your students
- Templates to speed planning time
- Activities to encourage use of the seven strategies
- Forms, posters, props, and prompts to assist both students and teachers
While theories come and go, research has shown that using these seven strategies will prove successful in the classroom-and beyond.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- About the Author
- The Goals of the Book
- Special Features of the Book
- Who the Book is for
- Overview of the Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Power of Strategic Reading Instruction
- What is Strategic Reading?
- What is Strategic Reading Instruction (SRI)
- What are the Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers?
- What are the Prerequisites for Strategic Reading Instruction?
- When is a Strategy not a Strategy?
- What's Ahead?
- 2. Becoming a Strategic Teacher
- What Does a Strategic Teacher Look Like?
- The Teaching Moves of a Strategic Teacher
- The Challenges of Strategic Reading Instruction
- The Benefits of SRI
- What's Ahead?
- 3. Understanding the Seven Strategies
- Cognitive Strategy #1: Activating
- Cognitive Strategy #2: Inferring
- Cognitive Strategy #3: Monitoring-Clarifying
- Cognitive Strategy #4: Questioning
- Cognitive Strategy #5: Searching-Selecting
- Cognitive Strategy #6: Summarizing
- Cognitive Strategy #7: Visualizing-Organizing
- What's Ahead?
- 4. Instructional Activities to Engage Your Students
- Turn on Your CPU (Central Processing Unit): Grades 1-8
- Turn on Your Math CPU (Central Processing Unit): Grades 4-8
- Add it up: Grades 3-8
- A Dozen Ways to Infer: Grades 3-8
- A Dozen Ways to Say Infer: Grades 4-8
- Fix-up Your Mix-ups: Grades 1-8
- Do You Have Any Questions? Grades 4-8
- The Prospector: Grades 4-8
- The Summarizers Five C's: Grades 3-8
- Visualize a Video: Grades K-2
- It Pays to Increase Your Word Power: Grades 2-8
- Organize it: Grades 3-8
- What's Ahead?
- 5. Organizing for Strategic Reading Instruction (SRI) in Your Classroom
- When Should Strategy Instruction Begin?
- How Should I Introduce SRI to My Students?
- Do I Have to Think Aloud?
- How Should SRI Be Paced and Sequenced?
- What if an Instructional Activity Doesn't Work?
- How Will I Know if My Students are Using the Strategies?
- Where Will I Find Time for SRI?
- How Can I Juggle It All?
- What Does a Lesson Look Like?
- What's Ahead?
- 6. Implementing Schoolwide Strategic Reading Instruction
- SRI Requires a Pervasive and Persuasive Reading Culture
- SRI Requires Balanced Instruction
- SRI Requires a Research-based Curriculum
- Is Your School or District Ready for SRI?
- Conclusion
- References
- Index