Reading Power
Teaching Students to Think While They Read
Adrienne Gear

(1-8)
Learn how to promote reading comprehension with a wealth of effective strategies that help students think as they read. You`ll learn how to engage students and create opportunities for a more interactive, thoughtful reading experience. Built around the five strategies—or reading powers—that proficient readers use, the book offers simple applications that can be incorporated into your classroom. Each chapter includes:

• A song or chant for each power for you to use in the classroom


• Suggestions for introducing each reading power


• Sequential lessons that incorporate teacher modeling, guided practice, and independent reading


• Reproducible work sheets that support the sequential lessons

Also includes extensive lists of children`s books, organized around grades and reading power, with suggestions for assembling classroom book collections.
(1-8) 144 pp.