- organizing text: identifying main ideas and summarizing
- connecting to background knowledge
- making inferences and predictions
- generating and answering questions
- understanding and remembering word meanings (vocabulary)
- monitoring one's own comprehension
Monday, March 8, 2010
New Book - Great Resource
Reading, writing, speaking, and listening are all literacy skills we need to teach and reinforce across the curricula. If you visit our online professional library and search for 'reading' you'll find a growing wealth of resources that provide tips and ideas for embedding literacy practices into your lesson plans. The latest book, Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities by Jeff Zwiers, was puiblished by the International Reading Association and chock-full of reproducible activities organized around key comprehension skills that are integrated into our elementary and middle school curriculum:
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