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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.
TANNY MCGREGOR 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. s
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September 20, 2009: 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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March 02, 2009: I especially liked the connections that the book helps teachers make with students. The thinking Bubble while one reads and the other pretends to be the cognitive thought was a wonderful tool that I used with my 4th graders. Overall it was a pretty decent book.