Building comprehension strategies
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Building Comprehension Strategies: For primary schools
Alison Davis
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RRP $49.95 (GST inc.)
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Skilled readers are active readers, using many comprehension strategies to make
meaning before, during and after reading. Building comprehension strategies focuses on the strategies used to successfully develop the comprehension ability of primary school students.
Building comprehension strategies focuses on strategies most often used to develop the
comprehension ability of primary school students:
- making connections to prior knowledge
- prediction and re-prediction
- visualisation
- asking and answering questions
- inference
- retell and paraphrasing
- summarisation.
About the book
Building comprehension strategies provides:
- an explanation of each strategy, giving examples of learning goals and success criteria
- examples of ‘talk-aloud’ and ‘think-aloud’ teaching and learning approaches
- examples of deliberate instruction based on commonly used reading texts
- self and peer assessment tasks in relation to strategy use
- advice on how teachers can integrate the strategies in one or a series of lessons.
The accompanying CD ROM contains blackline masters and graphic organisers that can
be used for independent, pair and small-group work during instruction, and as part of
planned practice and maintenance throughout the year.
Download sample chapter
You can download Chapter 1: Effective reading comprehension practices (PDF)
Also included is the table of contents.
About the author
Dr. Alison Davis, is a leading literacy researcher, writer, speaker and staff trainer. Alison
is particularly well known , especially in New Zealand, for her research on reading
comprehension. She has led initiatives focused on accelerating and sustaining improved levels
of reading comprehension in students of all levels of ability.
