Source for Reading Comprehension Strategies
Regina Richards
Ages: 6-18
This resource provides cognitive and metacognitive strategies for bringing meaning to text.
Benefits:
Provides multiple strategies that you can easily customize to fit your own therapy needs such as:
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17 vocabulary strategies - connecting words, images and visualization , mapping, feature analysis
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9 major structural strategies - mapping, affixes, contrasting and describing meaning, Latin and Greek forms
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10 text comprehension strategies text organization, answering text questions, generating questions, inferential reasoning
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7 summarising strategies - quick writes, frames, logographs
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Clear rationales, step-by-step instructions, and illustrations and examples make the success-focused strategies easy to use and adapt
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All strategies are directly based on recommendations published by the National Reading Panel, No Child Left Behind, and Reading First.
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Supplies the reader with an interactive chapter review or “Reflection” to put strategies and examples from the chapter into practice
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Serves many populations including: all school-aged children with reading comprehension deficits; SLPs, LD teachers, and other professionals who wish to increase their knowledge and use of strategy instruction for reading comprehension with students
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Helps your students learn to use strategies automatically
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Each strategy section contains a brief, evidence-based discussion that links the material to current reading comprehension research.
Features:
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Includes prereading strategies
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Contains more than 42 evidence-based strategies and approaches
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Explains how the brain reads
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Defines scientifically-based strategies
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Contains key questions at the end of each section for personal reflection
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Gives useful definitions of terms
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Includes printable graphic organizers on the CD - 8 previewing templates; 10 whole-to-part templates ; 2 sequencing templates; 2 compare and contrast templates; 5 cause and effect templates
Four sections include:
Part 1: Introductions and Explanations
Complete discussion of the definition of reading comprehension including the neurological basis
Rationale for using strategies to improve reading comprehension skills
Part 2: Vocabulary Strategies
Individual chapters on Associative Strategies, Structural Strategies (including substantial focus on Greek/Latin roots), and Contextual Strategies
Part 3: Text Comprehension Strategies
Individual chapters on Text Structure, Questioning, and Summarizing (including drawing conclusions). Each chapter contains suggestions for using graphic organizers to enhance text comprehension in both narrative and expository text.
Part 4: Transfer and Metacognition
Discussion of the importance of metacognition and the success of using multiple strategies.
Published 2006, 188 Pages, Large Softcover Format + CD-ROM
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