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  • ISBN:
    0325008876
  • ISBN-13:
    9780325008875
  • PUB. DATE:
    February 2007
  • PUBLISHER:
    Heinemann
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Excellent, Practical Resourceby txtcher

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I bought this book on the recommendation of a teacher I met at professional development. There are several things I love about this book:

1. It is short (just over 100 pages)

2. I correlates with Stephanie Harvey's works which I have used successfully in the past.

3. It has 5 specific lessons per topic with free or low cost resources to teach them.

4. There are visuals to support almost...

Very useful tool to connect the concrete to the abstract.by Anonymous

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Great approach to help readers connect with the text. I use this

book as a guide to plan lessons for a 3rd grader I tutor for reading

comprehension. The concrete connections have made reading strategies

real to her, not to mention we've had a lot of fun doing the activities.

The book provides many ways to reach various types of learners. For

example, students can use works of art...

Great applicationby Kojak

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I'm a 6th grade teacher and plan to implement some of the ideas in this book. I really like the organization and samples.


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Comprehension Connections

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  • Pub. Date: February 2007
  • Publisher: Heinemann
  • Sales Rank: 643

Synopsis

Inferring, questioning, determining importance. It s not easy to explain these abstract reading strategies to elementary readers, yet knowing how they work and how to use them is an important first step to connecting with texts. Fortunately Tanny McGregor has developed visual, tangible, everyday lessons that make abstract thinking concrete and that can help every child in your classroom make more effective use of reading comprehension strategies.

Biography

Tanny McGregor is coauthor of Comprehension Going Forward and author of Comprehension Connections. She has been teaching and learning in the West Clermont School District near Cincinnati, Ohio, for the past eighteen years. She currently supports twelve schools as a K-12 literacy specialist, coaching teachers, providing demonstration lessons, and facilitating laboratory classrooms. In addition, Tanny is an adjunct professor for Ashland University, teaching graduate courses in creativity.