Revisit, Reflect, Retell: Time-Tested Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension

• A new first chapter shows how to scaffold instruction for deep engagement and provides a thorough grounding in the research.
• Important new correlation tables directly link Linda’s strategies to the seven comprehension strands as well as to Robert Marzano’s Classifications of Thinking—you’ll quickly match the right strategies to your objectives.
• A DVD shares footage of Linda working with students, demonstrating key teaching moves, and modeling effective classroom language as she implements two new strategies.
• A CD of full-color learning tools from the text makes it easy to customize and print handouts that correspond with the strategies.
• Dozens of new photos show you exactly what Linda’s strategies look like in action and across the grades.

When Linda Hoyt is asked what people should know about her professional career, she is often heard to say, “I’m a teacher. That will always be the heart of my professional work.” Though she spent many years as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, curriculum developer, staff developer, and Title I District Coordinator, Linda’s passion will always center around vigorous and engaging classrooms where teachers and children learn together.

This passion for vigorous and engaged learning has led Linda to create twenty-four professional books and video programs, plus numerous instructional resources for children. A few titles from her multidimensional list of Heinemann publications include Revisit, Reflect, Retell; Make It Real; Interactive Read-Alouds; Solutions for Reading Comprehension; and her newest resources, Explorations in Nonfiction Writing and Crafting Nonfiction. Three of her popular Heinemann video programs include Nonfiction Writing (one for primary and one for intermediate) and Navigating Informational Texts. Linda is a full-time author, consultant, and highly requested speaker at conferences throughout the United States, in Canada, and in Australia.

Linda and her husband, Steve, live in the mountains of central Oregon where they enjoy outdoor activities and the high-desert climate.

Read more from Linda's most recent blogs here:

• Just Do It!  Informational Writing in the Primary Grades
• Guided Writing, Part 1
• Guided Writing, Part 2
• Reading For Life by Laura Robb
• Strategies for Teaching Nonfiction Writing (Grades K–2 | 3–5)

Listen to an interview with Linda Hoyt on Education Talk Radio—11/09/2011 (35:58)

Writing

• Explorations in Nonfiction Writing
• Crafting Nonfiction - Primary and Intermediate
• Nonfiction writing DVDs, K-2, 3-5
• "plus pack" at each grade level

Reading

• Interactive Read Alouds - K-1, 2-3, 4-5

Professional Books:

• Make it Real
• Revisit, Reflect, Retell

P. David Pearson is coauthor of the Heinemann titles Comprehension Going Forward and What Every Teacher Should Need Know About Reading Comprehension Instruction.

He has served President of the National Reading Conference (NRC), Director of the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement, and on the boards of directors for the International Reading Association, NRC, and Association of American Colleges of Teacher Education. He is the author of dozens of influential books and peer-reviewed articles, the founding editor of the Handbook of Reading Research, as well as a former editor of Reading Research Quarterly and the Review of Research in Education.

His many awards include the 1989 Oscar Causey Award (NRC) for contributions to reading research, the 1990 William S. Gray Citation of Merit (IRA) for contributions to reading research and practice, the 2005 Albert J. Harris Award (IRA) for the year’s best reading-disability publication, and the 2003 Alan Purves Award (NCTE) for a publication impacting practice. In 2006 the University of honored him with the Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award, and in 2010 AERA gave him Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award.