Comprehension Going Forward: Where We Are and What's Next

Keene, Ellin Oliver; Zimmermann, Susan; Daniels, Harvey Smokey

ISBN 10: 0325041636 / ISBN 13: 9780325041636

Editore: Heinemann Educational Books, 2011

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Titolo: Comprehension Going Forward: Where We Are ...

Casa editrice: Heinemann Educational Books

Data di pubblicazione: 2011

Legatura: Paperback

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"The real genius of this book is that it is written by teachers, for teachers. All of the authors in this book know what classrooms are like. This means that authenticity and integrity pervade every chapter in the book. Teachers will immediately sense this authenticity on their way to realizing that the book offers an endless supply of useful suggestions."

-From the Coda by P. David Pearson

For those of us who teach comprehension strategies,Comprehension Going Forward is as near to the ultimate PD experience as we can get. Imagine a professional learning community where you could sit in as...

Ellin Keene andDebbie Miller swap best practices

Stephanie Harvey andHarvey "Smokey" Daniels compare instruction across the grades

Anne Goudvis andTanny McGregor share ways to infuse comprehension into every subject area

Cris Tovani and Nancy Comminsapply the strategies to help struggling readers, English learners, and special-needs students.

In Comprehension Going Forward, you'll meet up with 17 leading practitioners and researchers for an energetic, personal, and frequently irreverent conversation on what great comprehension instruction looks like, what an amazing range of applications it has for all students, and what we can do better. Not only do figures such as Susan Zimmerman and P. David Pearson include their own chapters, but, like any exciting conversation, they point out their favorite parts of one another's chapters-highlighting discussion topics for teacher study groups along the way.

Read Comprehension Going Forward and RSVP to a get-together that no one who teaches reading will want to miss. Enter this powerful, lively conversation about how we can improve all readers' comprehension today and join some of your favorite authors as they reach for a tomorrow where every child reads with deep understanding.

"Each author takes the comprehension strategies as a starting point, and then reaches out toward a different set of applications, extensions, and practices. But everyone is connected by the research base on comprehension instruction and by our common goal:to provide every child in America with an "All-Access Pass" to literacy."

-From the editor's introduction by Harvey "Smokey" Daniels