Constructing Meaning Through Kid-Friendly Comprehension Strategy Instruction (Maupin House) - Softcover

Boyles, Dr Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0929895746 ISBN 13: 9780929895741

Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Nancy's comprehension and written response strategies give teachers the first-tier Response-to-Intervention (RTI) help they need to get students off to a great start! Good readers think about reading while they are reading. But how does a teacher teach students to apply comprehension strategies as they read? By applying the explicit teaching model to comprehension strategy instruction, Dr. Nancy Boyles offers teachers an easy, effective, and innovative approach to improve students' reading comprehension. Using her book -- rich with models, teacher-talk,and real-life examples -- teachers learn how to explicitly teach students to apply comprehension strategies competently while they read. And with Dr. Boyles' detailed lesson plans and templates, teachers can embed comprehension strategy instruction into guided, shared, and independent reading for both literacy and content-area instruction. Constructing Meaning shows teachers: A kid-friendly way to introduce and model a blended repertoire of comprehension strategies concurrently, so students practice strategies as readers actually use them: flexibly and as an integrated whole while reading; How to refine students' comprehension of fiction and informational text during shared, guided, and independent reading with focused lessons in specific strategy applications; and How to monitor students' progress in reading comprehension and comprehension-strategy use through follow-up activities, rubrics with discrete assessment criteria, and questions that make kids think. Teachers can reproduce classroom-ready visual supports from the book or customize them from the included CD.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Nancy N. Boyles is a professor in the Graduate Reading Program and Graduate Reading Program Coordinator at Southern Connecticut State University. She consults with districts locally, nationally, and internationally on topics related to comprehension, written response to text, and the craft of writing. She is the author of Teaching Written Response to Text.

Review

"Constructing Meaning is an expertly and professionally written guidebook to honing one's teaching skills and bringing out the best in one's students." --"The BookWatch," The Midwest Book Review, October 2004

Integrating writing with reading enhances comprehension (Brandenburg, 2002) because the two are reciprocal processes. Writing to learn engages students, extends thinking, deepens understanding, and energizes the meaning-making process...Writing to learn is an opportunity for students to recall, clarify, and question what they know about a subject and what they still wonder about with regard to that subject matter. Students also discover what they know about their content focus, their language, themselves, and their ability to communicate all of that to a variety of audiences. Without doubt, writing can optimize student learning of content subjects. Being able to express thinking in writing is a skill students take with them beyond the elementary social studies and science classrooms. --Writing to Learn across the Curriculum: Tools for Comprehension in Content Area Classes, by Kathy J. Knipper and Timothy J. Duggan, The Reading Teacher, February 2006

Edition details

• Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0929895746
• ISBN 13: 9780929895741
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 254