Comprehension connections : bridges to strategic reading /

McGregor, Tanny,

Comprehension connections : bridges to strategic reading / Tanny McGregor. - xiii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Foreword by Stephanie Harvey"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121) and index.

Bridge building 101 -- Metacognition : it's the thought that counts -- Schema : your own world wide web -- Inferring : not just anybody's guess -- Questioning : fuel for thought -- Determining importance : under the big top -- Visualizing : see for yourself -- Synthesizing : keep the change -- Epilogue : where the sidewalk begins.

A guide to helping children fully understand texts that explains how teachers can make the comprehension process achievable, accessible, and incremental by creating links between the concrete and the abstract through writing, discussion, song, art, and movement.


Text in English.

9780325008875 0325008876

2006034856


Reading comprehension.
Reading, Psychology of.
Metacognition in children.

LB 1050.45 / .M34 2007