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Author Almasi, Janice F

Title Teaching strategic processes in reading
Edition 2nd ed
Published New York : Guilford Publications, Inc., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (386 pages)
Contents Cover; Front Matter; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Contents; One -- What Does It Mean to Be Strategic?; What Is Involved in Strategic Processing?; Why Is Strategic Processing Important?; What Are Cognitive Strategies?; What Are the Characteristics of Good Strategy Users?; Why Students Do Not Use Strategies; Summary; Two -- Critical Elements of Strategies Instruction: Designing Effective Environments; Strategy Instruction Formats and Their Criticisms; The Critical Elements of Strategies Instruction Model; Summary
Three -- Responsive Teaching Frameworks within Response to Intervention what Is Responsive Teaching?; How Do Responsive Teaching and Strategies Instruction Relate to RTI?; Overview of Dynamic Interventions in a Multi-Tiered Framework; Responsive Teaching Is Foundational to RTI: What Sound Core Instruction That Incorporates Strategies Instruction Looks Like (Tier 1); Readers Who Need Support Inside and Outside the Classroom: Sound Intervention Instruction That Incorporates Strategies Instruction; Summary; Four -- Assessing Strategic Processing; What Is Important to Assess in Strategic Processing?
Individual Informal Assessments of Strategic Processing group-Administered Informal Assessments Related to Strategic Processing; Generating Hypotheses about Students' Strategy Use; Summary; Five -- Why Students Struggle with Comprehension; Defining Comprehension; Students Who Struggle with Comprehension; Sources of Comprehension Difficulties; Summary; Six -- Strategy Instruction That Enhances Comprehension; Implicit Instruction of Comprehension Strategies; Explicit Instruction of Comprehension Strategies; Summary; Seven -- Strategy Instruction That Enhances Word Recognition
How Do Readers Learn to Recognize Words? What Strategies Do Readers Use to Recognize Words?; Coordinating Flexible Use of Sets of Strategies; Summary; Eight -- The Path to Becoming a Successful Strategies Teacher; Growth as Teachers of Strategic Processing; Examples of Teachers' Growth and Development; Painless Aspects; Challenging Aspects; In Their Own Words; Summary; Nine -- Conclusions: Putting It All Together; Putting It All Together: Strategies Instruction across a Day and across the Week; Summary; References; Children's Literature; Index
Summary This accessible teacher resource and course text shows how to incorporate strategy instruction into the K-8 classroom every day. Cutting-edge theory and research are integrated with practical guidance and reflections from experienced teachers of novice and struggling readers. The book describes the nuts and bolts of creating classroom contexts that foster strategy use, combining explicit comprehension instruction with scaffolded support, and providing opportunities for students to verbalize their thinking. It features reproducible learning activities and planning and assessment tools
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Reading
Reading comprehension.
Word recognition.
EDUCATION -- Language Experience Approach.
EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- Reading & Phonics.
Reading
Reading comprehension
Word recognition
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Fullerton, Susan King
ISBN 9781462506439
1462506437
1283598264
9781283598262