Reading Comprehension Strategies
The recent research on using the strategic approach to reading has been summarized and translated in Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop by Keene and Zimmermann and Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding by Harvey and Goudvis. Both books describe strategies that students can learn to help them read more effectively.
Listed below are some sites that describe these strategies and offer suggested teaching methods.
Sites that Matter
Reading for the 21 Century: Adolescent Literacy Teaching and Learning Strategies
This paper, released by the Alliance for Excellent Education, examines the research that exists on how to improve the literacy of children in grades 4-12. Specifically, it reviews information related to teaching and learning strategies, prevention of reading difficulties, components of effective reading instruction, and reading comprehension. It also looks at literacy and English-language learners, computers and adolescent literacy, teacher professional development and the infrastructure for reading instruction in secondary schools.
www.all4ed.org/sitemap.html#Literacy
Reading Workshop: Reading Comprehension
This site offers a brief overview of strategies for developing questioning, inferring, determining, visualizing, and synthesizing skills. The site has many useful suggestions for classroom implementations.
www.springfield.k12.il.us/resources/languagearts/readingwriting/readcomp.html
Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
This site provides a description of reading strategies and offers classroom techniques in a downloadable format.
www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/langarts/mosaic.htm
Alliance for Excellent Education: Reading Next
Reading Next is a cutting-edge report that combines the best research currently available with well-crafted strategies for turning that research into practice. Written by five of the nation's leading researchers, Reading Next charts an immediate route to improving adolescent literacy. The authors outline 15 key elements of an effective literacy intervention, and call on public and private stakeholders to invest in the literacy of middle and high school students today while simultaneously building the knowledge base.
www.all4ed.org/publications/ReadingNext/
Mosaic Listserve Tools
This site offers an extensive list of web lesson plans, reporting forms, assessment ideas, and staff development information that can be downloaded and printed to use for teaching.
www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/tools/tools.htm
What Is Strategic Reading?
This site discusses effective classroom techniques for teaching the different reading strategies. The strategies are categorized into headings as before before, during and after reading.
www.howard.k12.md.us/langarts/Curriculum/strategies.htm
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Technology Integration Resources for Strategies That Work
This excellent resource, by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis takes each writing strategy and provides on line supports and sample lessons for primary, intermediate and upper level students
www.mayer.cps.k12.il.us/index2.htm
Study Guide for Strategies That Work
Stenhouse Publishers presents a study guide that clearly summarizes Harvey and Goudvis' main ideas.
www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/0310guid.pdf
National Reading Panel
This report articulates the most effective approaches to teaching children to read, provides current research on reading and ready-to-use instruction practices for teachers, and provides a plan to rapidly disseminate the findings to teachers and parents.
www.nationalreadingpanel.org/
Reading Lady.com
This site offers lessons based on the strategies in Mosaic of Thought and Strategies That Work. It offers posters and handouts organized by strategies.
www.readinglady.com/Comprehension/index.html
MiddleWeb's Reading and Writing Workshop Project Index
This teacher-made site provides a compilation of lessons, articles, and handouts developed for the MiddleWeb's Language Arts page. Do not miss this if you teach the middle grades.
www.middleweb.com/mw/workshop/R_W_Project.html
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