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Reading Online:"A Puzzle To the Rest of Us": Who Is a "Reader" Anyway? - 0 views

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    "A Puzzle To the Rest of Us": Who Is a "Reader" Anyway? Bronwyn T. Williams
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Reading Online:Fostering High Levels of Reading and Learning in Secondary Students - 0 views

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    Fostering High Levels of Reading and Learning in Secondary Students An Invited Commentary Michael F. Graves University of Minnesota
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Reading Online: Comprehension Instruction: What Makes Sense Now, What Might Make Sense ... - 0 views

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    Comprehension Instruction: What Makes Sense Now, What Might Make Sense Soon Michael Pressley There are a variety of well-validated ways to increase comprehension skills in students through instruction; these are summarized in this article. In addition, new hypotheses about effective comprehension instruction are emerging, and these are also summarized. Although too little comprehension instruction is now occurring in schools, much is known that would enable such teaching to be done with confidence; more will be known as the emerging hypotheses are evaluated in the years ahead.
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Determine Importance - 0 views

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    "Favorite Determining-Importance Lesson Ideas Determining important ideas and information in text is central to making sense of reading and moving toward insight... When we teach the strategy of determining importance, we often introduce it in nonfiction. They go together. Nonfiction reading is reading to learn. Simply put, readers of nonfiction have to decide and remember what is important in the texts they read if they are going to learn anything from them. Strategies That Work, Harvey & Goudvis."
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AdLit.org: Adolescent Literacy - Explicit Comprehension Strategy Instruction - 0 views

  • Explicit Comprehension Strategy Instruction By: National Institute for Literacy (2008) Use explicit strategy instruction to make visible the invisible comprehension strategies that good readers use to understand text. Support students until they can use the strategies independently. Recycle and re-teach strategies throughout the year. Planning for explicit strategy instruction After you have chosen a strategy to teach, think about how the strategy works. Collect several passages from reading materials that you are using in your classroom. Assess the passages for opportunities to model the comprehension strategy. Put these passages on an overhead transparency or slide. Prepare to introduce the strategy, including a description of the strategy, why it
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