Strategies that Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding

Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis

Stenhouse Publishers, 2000 - Education - 314 pages

Teaches techniques designed to improve reading skills, covering how children can learn by making connections, asking questions, visualization, inferring answers, extracting ideas, and synthesizing information.

Contents

• The Foundation of Meaning: 1
• Determining Importance: 8
• Making Connections: 10
• Strategy Lessons and More: 63
• Making Connections Between Snippets and Real Life: 70
• Questioning: 80
• Gaining Information Through Questioning: 86
• Using Question Webs to Expand Thinking: 92
• Visualizing from a Vivid Piece of Text: 100
• Inferring from the Cover and Illustrations as Well as the Text: 106
• Inferring and Questioning to Understand Historical Concepts: 114
• Becoming Familiar with the Characteristics of Nonfiction: 125
• Finding Important Information Rather Than Just One Main Idea: 131
• Reading Opposing Perspectives to Form an Opinion: 137
• Retelling to Synthesize Information: 146
• Synthesizing to Access Content: 159
• Resources That Support Strategy Instruction: 195
• Appendix B Great Books for Teaching Content in History Social Studies: 207
• Adult Text Sets: 255
• Appendix G Assessment Interview with Fourth Graders: 291
• Index: 315

Bibliographic information

• Title: Strategies that Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
• Authors: Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis
• Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers, 2000
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Oct 31, 2008
• ISBN: 1571103104, 9781571103109
• Length: 314 pages
• Subjects: Education / Educational Psychology; Education / Schools / Levels / Elementary; Education / Teaching / General; Education / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Reading Skills; Literary Criticism / Children's & Young Adult Literature