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| Reading with Meaning |
by Debbie Miller
(K-2)
Welcome to Debbie Miller`s real classroom where real students are learning to love to read, to write, and are together creating a collaborative and caring environment. In this book, the author focuses on how best to teach children strategies for comprehending text. Through explicit instruction, modeling, classroom discussion, and most important, by gradually releasing responsibility to her students, Debbie provides a model for creating a climate and culture of thinking and learning. You`ll learn:
- techniques for modeling thinking
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specific examples of modeled strategy lessons for inferring, asking questions, making connections, determining importance in text, creating mental images, and synthesizing information
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how to help children make their thinking visible through oral, written, artistic, and dramatic responses to literature
- how to successfully develop book clubs as a way for children to share their thinking
(K-2) 193 pp.
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