60 Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in Grades K-8
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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-8 provides 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.
Contents
Preface
Preface
About the Author
About the Author
Strategy 1: ABC Book
Strategy 1: ABC Book
Strategy 2: Anticipation Guide
Strategy 2: Anticipation Guide
Strategy 3: Bio Poem
Strategy 3: Bio Poem
Strategy 4: Book Box
Strategy 4: Book Box
Strategy 5: Brainstorming
Strategy 5: Brainstorming
Strategy 6: Bumper Stickers
Strategy 6: Bumper Stickers
Strategy 7: Central Story Problem
Strategy 7: Central Story Problem
Strategy 8: Character Bag
Strategy 8: Character Bag
Strategy 9: Character Mapping
Strategy 9: Character Mapping
Strategy 10: Creating Chapter Titles
Strategy 10: Creating Chapter Titles
Strategy 11: Crossword Puzzle
Strategy 11: Crossword Puzzle
Strategy 12: Cubing
Strategy 12: Cubing
Strategy 13: Directed Reading Thinking Activity
Strategy 13: Directed Reading Thinking Activity
Strategy 14: Double-Entry Journal
Strategy 14: Double-Entry Journal
Strategy 15: Exclusion Brainstorming
Strategy 15: Exclusion Brainstorming
Strategy 16: Fishbowl
Strategy 16: Fishbowl
Strategy 17: Found Poem
Strategy 17: Found Poem
Strategy 18: Four-Corners Debate
Strategy 18: Four-Corners Debate
Strategy 19: Gallery Walk
Strategy 19: Gallery Walk
Strategy 20: Grand Conversation
Strategy 20: Grand Conversation
Strategy 21: Guided Imagery
Strategy 21: Guided Imagery
Strategy 22: Hot Seat
Strategy 22: Hot Seat
Strategy 23: Interior Monologue
Strategy 23: Interior Monologue
Strategy 24: Jigsaw
Strategy 24: Jigsaw
Strategy 25: K-W-L Chart
Strategy 25: K-W-L Chart
Strategy 26: Learning Logs
Strategy 26: Learning Logs
Strategy 27: Life Experience
Strategy 27: Life Experience
Strategy 28: Literacy Quilt
Strategy 28: Literacy Quilt
Strategy 29: Literacy Sociogram
Strategy 29: Literacy Sociogram
Strategy 30: Literature Circles
Strategy 30: Literature Circles
Strategy 31: Mind Mapping
Strategy 31: Mind Mapping
Strategy 32: Open Mind Character Analysis
Strategy 32: Open Mind Character Analysis
Strategy 33: Paired Retellings
Strategy 33: Paired Retellings
Strategy 34: Pick-A-Pal
Strategy 34: Pick-A-Pal
Strategy 35: Plot Profile
Strategy 35: Plot Profile
Strategy 36: P-M-I Evaluation (Pluses-Minuses-Interesting Aspects)
Strategy 36: P-M-I Evaluation (Pluses-Minuses-Interesting Aspects)
Strategy 37: Quaker Reading
Strategy 37: Quaker Reading
Strategy 38: Question-Answer Relationships
Strategy 38: Question-Answer Relationships
Strategy 39: Questioning the Author
Strategy 39: Questioning the Author
Strategy 40: Quickwriting
Strategy 40: Quickwriting
Strategy 41: Readers' Theater
Strategy 41: Readers' Theater
Strategy 42: Read-Pair-Share
Strategy 42: Read-Pair-Share
Strategy 43: Reciprocal Questioning (ReQuest)
Strategy 43: Reciprocal Questioning (ReQuest)
Strategy 44: Response Log
Strategy 44: Response Log
Strategy 45: Semantic Mapping
Strategy 45: Semantic Mapping
Strategy 46: Sketch-to-Stretch
Strategy 46: Sketch-to-Stretch
Strategy 47: SQ3R (Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review)
Strategy 47: SQ3R (Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review)
Strategy 48: Stop-and-React
Strategy 48: Stop-and-React
Strategy 49: Storyboard
Strategy 49: Storyboard
Strategy 50: Story Frame
Strategy 50: Story Frame
Strategy 51: Story Mapping
Strategy 51: Story Mapping
Strategy 52: Story Prediction Guide
Strategy 52: Story Prediction Guide
Strategy 53: Story Pyramid
Strategy 53: Story Pyramid
Strategy 54: Summary Hand
Strategy 54: Summary Hand
Strategy 55: Tableau
Strategy 55: Tableau
Strategy 56: Tea Party
Strategy 56: Tea Party
Strategy 57: Think-Aloud Protocol
Strategy 57: Think-Aloud Protocol
Strategy 58: Think-of-Three
Strategy 58: Think-of-Three
Strategy 59: Venn Diagram
Strategy 59: Venn Diagram
Strategy 60: Yellow Stickies
Strategy 60: Yellow Stickies
Resource I: Strategies Recommended by Grade Level
Resource I: Strategies Recommended by Grade Level
Resource II: Elements Addressed Through Strategies
Resource II: Elements Addressed Through Strategies
Resource III: Strategies Used Before, During, and After Reading
Resource III: Strategies Used Before, During, and After Reading
Resource IV: Meta-Strategies Addressed
Resource IV: Meta-Strategies Addressed
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
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-8 provides 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.
Contents
Preface
Preface
About the Author
About the Author
Strategy 1: ABC Book
Strategy 1: ABC Book
Strategy 2: Anticipation Guide
Strategy 2: Anticipation Guide
Strategy 3: Bio Poem
Strategy 3: Bio Poem
Strategy 4: Book Box
Strategy 4: Book Box
Strategy 5: Brainstorming
Strategy 5: Brainstorming
Strategy 6: Bumper Stickers
Strategy 6: Bumper Stickers
Strategy 7: Central Story Problem
Strategy 7: Central Story Problem
Strategy 8: Character Bag
Strategy 8: Character Bag
Strategy 9: Character Mapping
Strategy 9: Character Mapping
Strategy 10: Creating Chapter Titles
Strategy 10: Creating Chapter Titles
Strategy 11: Crossword Puzzle
Strategy 11: Crossword Puzzle
Strategy 12: Cubing
Strategy 12: Cubing
Strategy 13: Directed Reading Thinking Activity
Strategy 13: Directed Reading Thinking Activity
Strategy 14: Double-Entry Journal
Strategy 14: Double-Entry Journal
Strategy 15: Exclusion Brainstorming
Strategy 15: Exclusion Brainstorming
Strategy 16: Fishbowl
Strategy 16: Fishbowl
Strategy 17: Found Poem
Strategy 17: Found Poem
Strategy 18: Four-Corners Debate
Strategy 18: Four-Corners Debate
Strategy 19: Gallery Walk
Strategy 19: Gallery Walk
Strategy 20: Grand Conversation
Strategy 20: Grand Conversation
Strategy 21: Guided Imagery
Strategy 21: Guided Imagery
Strategy 22: Hot Seat
Strategy 22: Hot Seat
Strategy 23: Interior Monologue
Strategy 23: Interior Monologue
Strategy 24: Jigsaw
Strategy 24: Jigsaw
Strategy 25: K-W-L Chart
Strategy 25: K-W-L Chart
Strategy 26: Learning Logs
Strategy 26: Learning Logs
Strategy 27: Life Experience
Strategy 27: Life Experience
Strategy 28: Literacy Quilt
Strategy 28: Literacy Quilt
Strategy 29: Literacy Sociogram
Strategy 29: Literacy Sociogram
Strategy 30: Literature Circles
Strategy 30: Literature Circles
Strategy 31: Mind Mapping
Strategy 31: Mind Mapping
Strategy 32: Open Mind Character Analysis
Strategy 32: Open Mind Character Analysis
Strategy 33: Paired Retellings
Strategy 33: Paired Retellings
Strategy 34: Pick-A-Pal
Strategy 34: Pick-A-Pal
Strategy 35: Plot Profile
Strategy 35: Plot Profile
Strategy 36: P-M-I Evaluation (Pluses-Minuses-Interesting Aspects)
Strategy 36: P-M-I Evaluation (Pluses-Minuses-Interesting Aspects)
Strategy 37: Quaker Reading
Strategy 37: Quaker Reading
Strategy 38: Question-Answer Relationships
Strategy 38: Question-Answer Relationships
Strategy 39: Questioning the Author
Strategy 39: Questioning the Author
Strategy 40: Quickwriting
Strategy 40: Quickwriting
Strategy 41: Readers' Theater
Strategy 41: Readers' Theater
Strategy 42: Read-Pair-Share
Strategy 42: Read-Pair-Share
Strategy 43: Reciprocal Questioning (ReQuest)
Strategy 43: Reciprocal Questioning (ReQuest)
Strategy 44: Response Log
Strategy 44: Response Log
Strategy 45: Semantic Mapping
Strategy 45: Semantic Mapping
Strategy 46: Sketch-to-Stretch
Strategy 46: Sketch-to-Stretch
Strategy 47: SQ3R (Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review)
Strategy 47: SQ3R (Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review)
Strategy 48: Stop-and-React
Strategy 48: Stop-and-React
Strategy 49: Storyboard
Strategy 49: Storyboard
Strategy 50: Story Frame
Strategy 50: Story Frame
Strategy 51: Story Mapping
Strategy 51: Story Mapping
Strategy 52: Story Prediction Guide
Strategy 52: Story Prediction Guide
Strategy 53: Story Pyramid
Strategy 53: Story Pyramid
Strategy 54: Summary Hand
Strategy 54: Summary Hand
Strategy 55: Tableau
Strategy 55: Tableau
Strategy 56: Tea Party
Strategy 56: Tea Party
Strategy 57: Think-Aloud Protocol
Strategy 57: Think-Aloud Protocol
Strategy 58: Think-of-Three
Strategy 58: Think-of-Three
Strategy 59: Venn Diagram
Strategy 59: Venn Diagram
Strategy 60: Yellow Stickies
Strategy 60: Yellow Stickies
Resource I: Strategies Recommended by Grade Level
Resource I: Strategies Recommended by Grade Level
Resource II: Elements Addressed Through Strategies
Resource II: Elements Addressed Through Strategies
Resource III: Strategies Used Before, During, and After Reading
Resource III: Strategies Used Before, During, and After Reading
Resource IV: Meta-Strategies Addressed
Resource IV: Meta-Strategies Addressed
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
December 2005 | 240 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9780761988373 | $94.95 |
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9780761988380 | $42.95 |
| Lifetime | 27/02/2023 | 9781483360959 | $39.00 |
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-8 provides 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.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- About the Author
- Strategy 1: ABC Book
- Strategy 2: Anticipation Guide
- Strategy 3: Bio Poem
- Strategy 4: Book Box
- Strategy 5: Brainstorming
- Strategy 6: Bumper Stickers
- Strategy 7: Central Story Problem
- Strategy 8: Character Bag
- Strategy 9: Character Mapping
- Strategy 10: Creating Chapter Titles
- Strategy 11: Crossword Puzzle
- Strategy 12: Cubing
- Strategy 13: Directed Reading Thinking Activity
- Strategy 14: Double-Entry Journal
- Strategy 15: Exclusion Brainstorming
- Strategy 16: Fishbowl
- Strategy 17: Found Poem
- Strategy 18: Four-Corners Debate
- Strategy 19: Gallery Walk
- Strategy 20: Grand Conversation
- Strategy 21: Guided Imagery
- Strategy 22: Hot Seat
- Strategy 23: Interior Monologue
- Strategy 24: Jigsaw
- Strategy 25: K-W-L Chart
- Strategy 26: Learning Logs
- Strategy 27: Life Experience
- Strategy 28: Literacy Quilt
- Strategy 29: Literacy Sociogram
- Strategy 30: Literature Circles
- Strategy 31: Mind Mapping
- Strategy 32: Open Mind Character Analysis
- Strategy 33: Paired Retellings
- Strategy 34: Pick-A-Pal
- Strategy 35: Plot Profile
- Strategy 36: P-M-I Evaluation (Pluses-Minuses-Interesting Aspects)
- Strategy 37: Quaker Reading
- Strategy 38: Question-Answer Relationships
- Strategy 39: Questioning the Author
- Strategy 40: Quickwriting
- Strategy 41: Readers' Theater
- Strategy 42: Read-Pair-Share
- Strategy 43: Reciprocal Questioning (ReQuest)
- Strategy 44: Response Log
- Strategy 45: Semantic Mapping
- Strategy 46: Sketch-to-Stretch
- Strategy 47: SQ3R (Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review)
- Strategy 48: Stop-and-React
- Strategy 49: Storyboard
- Strategy 50: Story Frame
- Strategy 51: Story Mapping
- Strategy 52: Story Prediction Guide
- Strategy 53: Story Pyramid
- Strategy 54: Summary Hand
- Strategy 55: Tableau
- Strategy 56: Tea Party
- Strategy 57: Think-Aloud Protocol
- Strategy 58: Think-of-Three
- Strategy 59: Venn Diagram
- Strategy 60: Yellow Stickies
- Resource I: Strategies Recommended by Grade Level
- Resource II: Elements Addressed Through Strategies
- Resource III: Strategies Used Before, During, and After Reading
- Resource IV: Meta-Strategies Addressed
- Index