Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies (Professional Resources)

Ellin Keene

ISBN 10: 1425804365 / ISBN 13: 9781425804367

Published by Shell Education, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies (Professional Resources)
• Publisher: Shell Education
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1425804365
• ISBN 13: 9781425804367
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 3 ounces

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Synopsis

Developed by renowned author Ellin Keene, this resource is an ideal tool for assessing students' reading comprehension. This book offers a unique way of assessing how students use thinking strategies to comprehend text and features four reading passages for each grade level (1-8) that offer high-interest fiction and nonfiction text. Each assessment is accompanied by a rubric that allows you to document students' thinking and then score and monitor their growth. Strategies assessed include thinking aloud, using schema, inferring, asking questions, determining importance in text, setting a purpose for reading, monitoring comprehension, visualizing, synthesizing and retelling, and story structure/structural patterns. The assessments can be used in various ways to inform instruction and to assess learning. All passages, assessments, and rubrics are provided in digital format and the assessments and rubrics can be customized. This resource is correlated to the Common Core and other state standards.

About Shell Education
Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

About the Author

Ellin Keene, M.A., has authored and co-authored numerous books, reading textbooks, and reading and education policy journals. She has been a classroom teacher, staff developer, adjunct professor of reading and writing, and was Deputy Director and Director of Literacy and Staff Development for the Cornerstone Project at the University of Pennsylvania.