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Author Fountas, Irene C.

Title Teaching for comprehending and fluency : thinking, talking, and writing about reading, K-8 / Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell
Published Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2006]
©2006

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Description xlii, 566 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 DVD-ROM
4 3/4 in
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Section/ -- Chapter -- Title -- Intro -- Opening -- Living a Literate Life: The Right of Childhood -- Creating a Classroom Community of Readers and Writers -- Section I -- Readers -- I-1 -- Understanding Readers, Texts and Teaching -- I-2 -- Helping Students Build a Processing System for Reading a Variety of Texts -- I-3 -- Reading Is Thinking: Within, Beyond, and About the Text -- I-4 -- Helping Students Develop Systems of Strategic Actions to Sustain Processing -- I-5 -- Helping Students Develop Strategic Actions of Strategic Actions for Expanding -- Thinking -- I-6 -- Understanding the Fluent Reader: Effective Processing -- I-7 -- Recognizing Change Over Time in Fluent Reading -- I-8 -- Assessing Readers: Observing for Evidence of Comprehending and Fluency -- I-9 -- The Role of Talk, Wring, and Benchmark Books in Assessing Comprehension -- Section II -- Texts -- Ii-1 -- Using a Variety of High Quality Texts to Support Learning -- Ii-2 -- Supporting Thinking across a Variety of Genres -- Ii-3 -- Using a Gradient of Text to Match Books to Readers -- Ii-4 -- Understanding the Demands of Nonfiction Texts -- Ii-5 -- Understanding the Demands of Fiction Texts and Poetry -- Section III -- Teaching -- Iii-1 -- Engaging Readers in Thinking and Talking about Texts through Interactive Read -- Aloud -- Iii-2 -- Creating a Literate Culture Through Interactive Read Aloud: Shared Talk about Talks -- Iii-3 -- Planning for Interactive Read Aloud Across the Grades -- Iii-4 -- Moving From Interactive Read Aloud to Literature Study -- Iii-5 -- Getting Started with Book Clubs: Thinking and Talking about Texts -- Iii-6 -- Promoting Shared and Performance Reading: Engaging in Effective Processing -- Iii-7 -- Maximizing Independent Reading to Help Students Think Within, Beyond, and About -- Texts -- Iii-8 -- Designing Minilessons to Support Thinking About Texts in a Reading Workshop -- Iii-9 -- Guiding Readers to Support Comprehending and Fluency -- Iii-10 -- Using Guided Reading to Support the Comprehending of Fiction Texts -- Iii-11 -- Using Guided Reading to Support the Comprehending of Nonfiction Texts -- Iii-12 -- Writing about Reading: Moving from Talk to Written Conversation about Texts -- Iii-13 -- Writing about Reading in a Variety of Genres -- Iii-14 -- Meeting the Diverse Needs of English Language Learners -- Iii-15 -- Teaching for Fluency Across Instructional Contexts -- Iii-16 -- Expanding Vocabulary Across Instructional Contexts -- Final Thoughts
Summary A practical guide for teaching comprehension and fluency in the kindergarten through eighth-grade classroom with instruction on reading levels, writing about reading, and interactive read-aloud and literature study; and contains a DVD with over 100 blackline masters, forms, and checklists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Authorship -- Study and teaching.
Creative writing -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Comprehension -- Study and teaching
Journalism -- Study and teaching.
Language arts (Primary)
Literacy -- Study and teaching.
Reading (Elementary)
Reading (Primary)
Reading.
Author Pinnell, Gay Su.
LC no. 2006005953
ISBN 0325003084 (alk. paper)
Other Titles Thinking, talking, and writing about reading, K-8
Teaching for comprehending and fluency, K-8