Description
This accessible teacher resource and course text shows how to incorporate strategy instruction into the K 8 classroom every day. Cutting-edge theory and research are integrated with practical guidance and reflections from experienced teachers of novice and struggling readers. The book describes the nuts and bolts of creating classroom contexts that foster strategy use, combining explicit comprehension instruction with scaffolded support, and providing opportunities for students to verbalize their thinking. It features reproducible learning activities and planning and assessment tools. New to This Edition The latest knowledge and classroom-tested methods. Chapter on response to intervention (RTI). Chapter on organizing instruction across the school day and week. Expanded practical content, including sample lessons and more early literacy and upper-elementary examples.
Chapter
One--What Does It Mean to Be Strategic?
What Is Involved in Strategic Processing?
Why Is Strategic Processing Important?
What Are Cognitive Strategies?
What Are the Characteristics of Good Strategy Users?
Why Students Do Not Use Strategies
Two--Critical Elements of Strategies Instruction: Designing Effective Environments
Strategy Instruction Formats and Their Criticisms
The Critical Elements of Strategies Instruction Model
Three--Responsive Teaching Frameworks within Response to Intervention
What Is Responsive Teaching?
How Do Responsive Teaching and Strategies Instruction Relate to RTI?
Overview of Dynamic Interventions in a Multi‑Tiered Framework
Responsive Teaching Is Foundational to RTI: What Sound Core Instruction That Incorporates Strategies Instruction Looks Like (Tier 1)
Readers Who Need Support Inside and Outside the Classroom: Sound Intervention Instruction That Incorporates Strategies Instruction
Four--Assessing Strategic Processing
What Is Important to Assess in Strategic Processing?
Individual Informal Assessments of Strategic Processing
Group-Administered Informal Assessments Related to Strategic Processing
Generating Hypotheses about Students’ Strategy Use
Five--Why Students Struggle with Comprehension
Students Who Struggle with Comprehension
Sources of Comprehension Difficulties
Six--Strategy Instruction That Enhances Comprehension
Implicit Instruction of Comprehension Strategies
Explicit Instruction of Comprehension Strategies
Seven--Strategy Instruction That Enhances Word Recognition
How Do Readers Learn to Recognize Words?
What Strategies Do Readers Use to Recognize Words?
Coordinating Flexible Use of Sets of Strategies
Eight--The Path to Becoming a Successful Strategies Teacher
Growth as Teachers of Strategic Processing
Examples of Teachers’ Growth and Development
Nine--Conclusions: Putting It All Together
Putting It All Together: Strategies Instruction across a Day and across the Week