Harvey, a teacher and staff developer, and Goudvis, a classroom teacher, staff developer, and adjunct professor, describe comprehension strategies that teach K-8 students to become engaged, thoughtful, and independent readers. They explain foundational concepts of reading, including how reading is thinking and strategic, and the aspects of effective comprehension instruction, then provide strategy lessons for teaching and monitoring comprehension, background knowledge, questioning, visualizing and inferring, determining importance in text, and summarizing and synthesizing information, as well as teaching comprehension across the curriculum. This edition has a new chapter on building knowledge through thinking-intensive reading, with sections on trends like close reading, close listening, close viewing, text complexity, and critical thinking; a revised chapter on 21st-century reading, focusing on digital reading and strategies for integrating comprehension and technology and differentiating with technology; a new chapter on instructional strategies that can be used repeatedly; new and revised chapters on content literacy and inquiry-based teaching and learning; and 30 new lessons. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
In this new edition of their groundbreaking book Strategies That Work, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis share the work and thinking they’ve done since the second edition came out a decade ago and offer new perspectives on how to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers.
Thirty new lessons and new and revised chapters shine a light on children’s thinking, curiosity, and questions. Steph and Anne tackle close reading, close listening, text complexity, and critical thinking in a new chapter on building knowledge through thinking-intensive reading and learning. Other fully revised chapters focus on digital reading, strategies for integrating comprehension and technology, and comprehension across the curriculum.
The new edition is organized around three sections:
Part I provides readers with a solid introduction to reading comprehension instruction, including the principles that guide practice, suggestions for text selection, and a review of recent research that underlies comprehension instruction.
Part II contains lessons to put these principles into practice for all areas of reading comprehension.
Part III shows you how to integrate comprehension instruction across the curriculum and the school day, particularly in science and social studies.
Updated bibliographies, including the popular “Great Books for Teaching Content,” are accessible online.
Since the first publication of Strategies That Work, more than a million teachers have benefited from Steph and Anne’s practical advice on creating classrooms that are incubators for deep thought. This third edition is a must-have resource for a generation of new teachers—and a welcome refresher for those with dog-eared copies of this timeless guide to teaching comprehension.