Monitor Comprehension with Intermediate Students: Getting Started with The Comprehension Toolkit, Grades 3-6 (Harvey, Stephanie, AUT) - Softcover

Harvey, Stephanie; Goudvis, Anne

9780325037462: Monitor Comprehension with Intermediate Students: Getting Started with The Comprehension Toolkit, Grades 3-6 (Harvey, Stephanie, AUT)

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ISBN 10: 0325037469 ISBN 13: 9780325037462

Publisher: HEINEMANN, 2010

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"We teach the reader, not just the reading. We want children to be lifelong learners who read actively and independently across the curriculum, who engage their minds and understand what they read. The Toolkit lessons and practices teach kids to use comprehension strategies to 'read to learn' as they encounter information and ideas in a wide variety of nonfiction texts."
-Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis

Learn how to teach nonfiction strategies to intermediate readers and howStephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis help students listen to their inner conversation, keep track of their thinking, and monitor their understanding as they read. Through 2 foundational books-The Comprehension Toolkit Teacher's Guide andMonitor Comprehension-and seven online video clips, Steph and Anne provide the lesson plans, teaching language, and tools you'll need to teach students how to use nonfiction reading strategies flexibly across a variety of texts, topics, and subject areas.

In the Teacher's Guide, Steph and Anne explain the research and thinking behindThe Comprehension Toolkit. They include an overview of the Toolkit's instructional design as well as guidelines for integrating theToolkit into your literacy curriculum. In addition to describing how to foster an active literacy classroom, theTeacher's Guide shows how to choose texts and apply the strategies in science and social studies, and offers guidelines for assessing student work.

When readers monitor their comprehension, they keep track of their thinking while reading. They listen to the voice in their head that speaks to them as the read. They notice when the text makes sense or when it doesn't. Monitor Comprehension helps you teach readers how to "fix up" their comprehension by using a variety of strategies including stopping to refocus thinking, rereading, and reading on. Throughout readers learn to monitor and use strategies to maintain understanding and repair comprehension when it breaks down.

The seven accompanying video clips include a video conversation with Dr. P. David Pearson and slideshows of an active literacy classroom, an assessment overview, and strategy instruction in science and social studies. (Video clips are free for 6 months upon registration. You must register within 6 months of purchase.)

Learn more about these resources and the series atwww.comprehensiontoolkit.com.

This pack is part of firsthand's Getting Started series.
Bridging the gap between educational theory and practice,firsthand classroom materials model the carefully crafted techniques and language of master teachers in ways that help teachers refine their practice and reinvent their own teaching. The most comprehensive of these resources span more than a year of instruction. Firsthand's Getting Started Packs were created for teachers in training and professional book study groups who want a compact, affordable way to study and tryout these transformative classroom materials. EachGetting Started Pack includes an overview book, a complete unit of study, online video clips provided free of charge for 6 months, and an accompanying study guide.
Getting Started packs include:Launch a Primary Writing Workshop,Grades K-2; Launch an Intermediate Writing Workshop, Grades 3-5;Launch an Intermediate Reading Workshop,Grades 3-5; Introduce the Qualities of Writing, Grades 3-6;Monitor Comprehension with Primary Students, Grades K-2;Monitor Comprehension with Intermediate Students, Grades 3-6;Investigate the Number System, Grades K-3;Investigate Multiplication, Grades 3-5;Investigate Fractions, Grades 4-6.

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About the Authors

Stephanie Harvey has spent her career teaching and learning about reading and writing. After fifteen years of public school teaching, both in regular education and special education classrooms, Stephanie worked for twelve years as a staff developer for the Denver based Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC), a partnership of leaders from education and business, who support innovation in public schools.

Insatiably curious about student thinking, she is a teacher first and foremost and currently serves as a private literacy consultant to schools and school districts. In that role, she conducts keynote speeches, presentations, workshops, demonstration lessons, coaching sessions and ongoing consultation to teachers, reading specialists, literacy coaches, principals and district administrators. With a focus on K-12 literacy, her specialties include comprehension instruction, inquiry-based learning, content area reading and writing, nonfiction literacy, and the role of passion, wonder and engagement in teaching and learning.

Stephanie has written many articles, books and resources; her Heinemann publications include the title Comprehension and Collaboration which she co-authored with Smokey Daniels, and The Comprehension Toolkit series which is an in-depth Curricular Resource for comprehension instruction co-authored with Anne Goudvis.

Click here to read recent Heinemann Blogs from Steph.

Connect with Steph at @StephHarvey49

� Listen to an interview with Stephanie Harvey on Education Talk Radio—2/29/2012 (30:35)

Anne Goudvis has taught students in grades K-6 over the years, beginning her teaching career in urban schools on the south side of Chicago. She spent many years as a staff developer in the Denver area, working in culturally and linguistically diverse schools. Currently, Anne works with schools and districts around the country to implement progressive literacy practices and comprehension across the curriculum.

She is the coauthor with Stephanie Harvey of Strategies That Work and The Comprehension Toolkit series, along with resources including Scaffolding the Comprehension Toolkits for English Language Learners. A history buff, she and Stephanie also coauthored the Short Nonfiction for Teaching American History series, which includes strategies for teaching historical literacy and student articles about often overlooked voices and people in history. With Inquiry Illuminated, Anne, Steph, and Brad Burhow show how curiosity and student agency thrive as kids engage in Researcher's Workshop across the curriculum.

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