Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl, Georgia Earnest García

Expanding Reading Comprehension in Grades 3-6 (eBook, ePUB)

Effective Instruction for All Students

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Students in grades 3-6 need to use increasingly sophisticated comprehension skills and strategies as they read and build knowledge across disciplinary content areas. Grounded in research, this book presents effective practices for integrating literacy instruction with literature, science, and social studies. Chapters address text selection, vocabulary development, strategy instruction, discussion formats, writing to express and expand comprehension, assessment, and more. Ways to meet the needs of emergent bilingual and culturally diverse students are highlighted throughout. Ideal for preservice and inservice teachers and professional staff development, the book includes classroom vignettes, text boxes with easy-to-read instructional procedures, and curriculum resources. Helpful reproducible forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. See also the authors' related book on the primary grades: Developing Reading Comprehension: Effective Instruction for All Students in PreK-2.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apa Publications
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781462549382
• Artikelnr.: 63493540

Autorenporträt

Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl, EdD, is a literacy consultant and author who focuses on translating literacy research into practice. Formerly, she was Clinical Professor of Literacy at New York University (NYU), where she taught graduate courses and served as Director of both the Literacy Program and the NYU Literacy Clinic. Before entering academia, Dr. Stahl taught in public elementary and middle school classrooms for over 25 years. She is the coauthor or coeditor of several books, and her articles have appeared in the leading journals of research and practice. Dr. Stahl specializes in reading acquisition, comprehension instruction, reading intervention, and literacy assessment. Currently, she partners with educators as a consultant to support their efforts to improve reading achievement, especially for students with reading difficulties. Georgia Earnest García, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana/n-/Champaign. She served on the RAND Reading Study Group on Skillful Reading and the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. Dr. García is coauthor or coeditor of several books and has published in leading academic and practitioner journals. Before acquiring her PhD, she was a bilingual/ESL/EFL and English language arts teacher at the elementary, middle school, high school, and community college levels. Although retired, she continues to collaborate with teachers and schools and conduct research on the literacy development, instruction, and assessment of students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, with a specific focus on bilingual students. Dr. García was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame in 2019.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Unifying Theory, Research, and Practice
2. Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students from Diverse Backgrounds
3. Integrating Comprehension, Thinking, and Knowledge Building
4. Selecting and Working with Texts and Digital Resources
5. Vocabulary Development That Supports Comprehension
6. Strategy Instruction for Narrative and Expository Texts
7. Dialogic Learning: The Power of Discussion, Argument, and Debate
8. Disciplinary Writing Instruction
9. How to Assess Intermediate Students' Reading Comprehension
Appendix A. English Language Arts College and Career Readiness Anchor
Standards for Reading(NGA & CCSSO, 2010)
Appendix B. Curriculum Resource Materials
Appendix C. NYS ELA Test Released Questions: Generic Questions for
Discussions or Writing Prompts
References
Index