Reading comprehension Boosters: 100 lessons for building higher-level literacy, grades 3-5

The ability not just to read words, but to comprehend and make meaning of what is read is necessary for any academic learning, especially beyond the third grade. This book offers 100 high-interest readings combined with hands-on activities specifically designed to help students gain fundamental comprehension skills so they can succeed in reading complex and varied types of texts. Each lesson includes a brief reading selection followed by questions, multiple-choice selections, thinking, and writing activities. The activities, all on reproducible worksheets, can be used to give individual students or groups of students extra practice or as supplemental skill-building and test-prep activities for the full class. Activities are grouped within seven lesson units, with each unit focusing on an important aspect of comprehension: 1) extracting the main idea; 2) summarizing; 3) inferring, predicting, and concluding, 4) understanding facts vs. opinions; 5) comparing and contrasting, 6) discussing; 7) review and application. The units are carefully scaffolded and build in gradual levels of challenge so that students in gain proficiency as they move along. The story themes are of high interest to students and focus on robots, animal helpers, space, famous people; etc. The activities are designed to build high-level cognitive skills called for in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) frameworks and that are oten emphasized in standardized tests. Each unitincludes a Teacher Section with guidance on how to introduce the activities to students and support them in their reading practices.Thomas G. Gunning is professor emeritus in the Department of Reading at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) and currently serves as adjunct professor at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), teaching a variety of courses on literacy, remedial reading, and reading problem diagnosis. A former public school teacher, he long headed the reading clinic at SCSU, where he coached teachers working with disabled readers. He is author of over a dozen textbooks and professional titles related to reading and literacy instruction (most with Allyn s DOE-mandated Reading First program.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-39992-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 480
• Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés