Building reading comprehension habits in grades 6-12 :
General Material Designation
[Book]
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a toolkit of classroom activities /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jeff Zwiers
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Second edition
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 226 pages :
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illustrations ;
Dimensions
28 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Part I: Developing instruction using comprehension habits -- A crash course in reading comprehension -- Assessment and instruction that build comprehension habits -- Part II: Six comprehension habits -- Organizing text information by sculpting the main idea and summarizing -- Connecting to background knowledge -- Making inferences and predictions -- Generating and answering questions -- Understanding and remembering word meanings -- Monitoring one's own comprehension -- Part II: Ancillary materials -- Appendix A: Multiple-meaning words -- Appendix B: Prefixes, suffixes, and roots
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book is intended for middle school and high school teachers of social studies, science, English, English-language development, and any other subject with challenging texts and classes with readers who struggle to understand them. The activities are especially meant to help readers who are below grade level to access and organize the content of grade-level texts." - Preface