7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It! - Softcover

Zimmermann, Susan; Hutchins, Chryse

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9780761515494: 7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It!
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761515496 ISBN 13: 9780761515494
Publisher: Harmony/Rodale/Convergent, 2003

Synopsis

It's simple: If children don't understand what they read, they will never embrace reading. And that limits what they can learn while in school. This fact frightens parents, worries teachers, and ultimately hurts children.

7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers—those who aren't already using this valuable program—practical, thoughtful advice about the seven simple thinking strategies that proficient readers use:

• Connecting reading to their background knowledge
• Creating sensory images
• Asking questions
• Drawing inferences
• Determining what's important
• Synthesizing ideas
• Solving problems

Easily understood, easily applied, and proven successful, this essential educational tool helps parents and teachers to turn reading into a fun and rewarding adventure.

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About the Author

SUSAN ZIMMERMAN is the cofounder of Denver's Public Education and Business Coalition. She lives in Denver.

CHRYSE HUTCHINS is a reading consultant and a staff developer for Denver's Public Education and Business Coalition. She lives in Denver.

From the Back Cover

It's simple: If children don't understand what they read, they will never embrace reading. And that limits what they can learn while in school. This fact frightens parents, worries teachers, and ultimately hurts children.
7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers--those who aren't "already using this valuable program--practical, thoughtful advice about the seven simple thinking strategies that proficient readers use:
- Connecting reading to their background knowledge
- Creating sensory images
- Asking questions
- Drawing inferences
- Determining what's important
- Synthesizing ideas
- Solving problems
Easily understood, easily applied, and proven successful, this essential educational tool helps parents and teachers to turn reading into a fun and rewarding adventure.

From the Inside Flap

It's simple: If children don't understand what they read, they will never embrace reading. And that limits what they can learn while in school. This fact frightens parents, worries teachers, and ultimately hurts children.

7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers?those who aren't already using this valuable program?practical, thoughtful advice about the seven simple thinking strategies that proficient readers use:

? Connecting reading to their background knowledge
? Creating sensory images
? Asking questions
? Drawing inferences
? Determining what's important
? Synthesizing ideas
? Solving problems

Easily understood, easily applied, and proven successful, this essential educational tool helps parents and teachers to turn reading into a fun and rewarding adventure.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Harmony/Rodale/Convergent
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0761515496
ISBN 13 
9780761515494
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
225
Rating
  • 4.06 out of 5 stars
    302 ratings by Goodreads

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